The term ‘pidgin’ is probably a corruption of the English word business, as pronounced by the indigenous Chinese, and designates a mixed language that arises in situations where speakers of different languages are unable to understand each...

1 Spoken colloquial language of the late Middle Ages, in contrast to the written language of the bureaucracies. 2 Generally speaking, a language in which laws, public announcements, trade agreements, and political documents of international...

A pidgin is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups who do not share a common language, in situations such as trade. Pidgins are not the native language of any speech community, but are instead learned...