pidgins and creoles
The skeleton sentence expanded
Tweet Language probably began when people gave names to things, people, and actions. It has developed into a sophisticated, flexible instrument since then. The language in the exercise below is akin to a primitive pidgin, but was probably the way our earliest ancestors spoke when language was first developing. Exercise: Take the skeletal sentence elements […]
Pidgins and Creoles
Tweet When groups speaking different languages gathered to accomplish something (for example, trading in ports, or running a plantation when slave and owner speak different languages), they had to communicate. Either they agreed to speak a common language (French, Russian, Chinese, Latin, English and many others have historically been that common language), or they scrambled […]