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What can pidgins and creoles teach us about the birth of a new language?
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What can pidgins and creoles teach us about the birth of a new language? It is one of civilisations great questions, how is a language, how did the first language come about? Language is, after all, the foundation of civilisation. Without a systematic form of communication used and understood by all, then nothing could ever be done. Laws could not be followed, orders couldn't be filled and love letters would be unintelligible. Fortunately, most of us have the gift of language. The question is, where and how did this wonderful gift originate. Language is older than history, so the actual birth of language, metaphorically speaking, tool place to long ago to be recorded. However, we are lucky to be able to study the next best thing. That is how a group of people have created a language from the bottom up. Pidgins occur where groups of people speaking more than one...
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