What Is Pidgin

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Multiple Choice

What is pidgin?

• A) a set of languages believed to be most like the original human language, spoken by a small population of Indian Ocean islanders
• B) a partial language that results from primitive tribes' attempts to learn the language of a modern industrialized state
• C) metalanguage, developed by computer programmers, that has yielded valuable insights into the workings of the human brain
• D) a rhythmic sublanguage present in any human language as the result of a universally shared mutation
• E) a mixed language that develops to ease communication between members of different cultures in contact, usually in situations of trade or colonial domination

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