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French Pidgin [1 record]

Record 1 1998-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
OBS

Establishment of plantation economies in the Caribbean area, with large groups of ... slaves from different language backgrounds in West Africa, led to a number of pidgins based on English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Key term(s)
  • Pidgin French

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
CONT

Un pidgin français, français de charabia, français-tirailleur (...), est parlé en Côte d'Ivoire et dans les autres anciennes possessions françaises sur la Côte de Guinée.

Spanish

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