![]() Unadapted borrowing from English pidgin, from pidgin English, from a Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation of English business during trade in the Far East. “pidgin” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.It is used as a way of communicating by people who do not speak each others languages. Pidgin English - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.īorrowed from English pidgin, from Chinese Pidgin English pidgin, from English business. a language that has developed from a mixture of two languages.The translations are sorted from the most common to the less popular. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 John Holmes, An introduction to pidgins and creoles, Cambridge University Press (2000) In Glosbe you will find translations from English into Nigerian Pidgin coming from various sources.( linguistics ) An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.Pidgin ( countable and uncountable, plural pidgins) Chinese pronunciation of Portuguese ocupação ( “ occupation business ” ).Hebrew פִּדְיוֹן ( pidyón, “ exchange trade redemption ” ). ![]() ![]() From pidgin English, from a Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation of English business during trade in the Far East.Īll attestations of pidgin from the first half of the nineteenth century given in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary mean “business an action, occupation, or affair” (the earliest being from 1807). ![]()
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