The term "pidgin language" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the term "pidgin language" when referring to a mixed language made up of two or more separate languages that is typically used for communication between people who do not share a language. Example sentence: The use of pidgin language has been common among trading communities for centuries.
"Many cats and their human companions seem to develop a pidgin language in order to communicate better.
In most everyday contexts the most widely spoken language is Tok Pisin ("Pidgin Language"; also called Melanesian Pidgin or Neo-Melanesian), a creole combining grammatical elements of indigenous languages, some German, and, increasingly, English.
It is used commonly in Hawaii as part of the Hawaiian Pidgin language.
"We have this great gift of human intelligence based around language," says Pell, "and now we have to translate it into a grunting pidgin language to interact with machines".
"It's not about teaching people the pidgin language," says Isibor.
But if a Pidgin language becomes the main language of a speech community, then eventually children will grow up learning the pidgin as their first language.
(Creoles are pidgin languages that have become the only or major language of a speech community).
It's true that linguistic history is full of pidgin languages, which facilitated basic communication among disparate parties but didn't keep anyone from speaking his own language.
Pidgin languages are defined by not having any native speakers, but only being spoken by people who have another language as their first language.
Among these 271 individuals, 66.1% preferred to use ASL, 19.9% preferred to use ASL + English, 12.6% preferred to use English, and 1.5% used Pidgin Sign Language, Signed English, or another coded language form (other). Sample characteristics of those completing an audiology session are provided in Table 1.
The term Bêche-de-Mer has also come to designate the pidgin English language spoken in these regions.
