Sociolinguistics: Pidgins and Creoles

Pidgins and Creoles

Pidgins is a new language with simple structure that create by small community for communication with others who come from different region with different language. Pidgins does not have any native speakers. Example: in trade and colonization. Creoles is a language that develop from pidgins and used as mother tongue and has native speakers.

Question

1.     Give more explanation about creoles and example?

Answer: Creoles may not always develop out of pidgins but through the mixing of two or more languages over generations. If there are always native speakers in this situation, then there was never a pidgin. For ex: Papua Nugini language

2.      What is the benefits we learn pidgins and creoles for teacher?

Answer: When we teach our students, we can add the student’s knowledge with the other materi so that the students be enthusiasm with our material and they can know new language.

3.      What is the relationship between pidgins, creoles and sociolinguistics?

Answer: Sociolinguistics is the study of the language used in social. Pidgin that used in certain situation. Such as salesman from Indonesia and stranger from England. Each them cannot understand language each other so salesman say the simple word to sales, like:

Peri chip (very cheap)

Pip            (five)

Tosen       (thousand)

Creoles is mother tongue that is develop from pidgin and they connected by lingua franca.

So pidgin, creoles and sociolinguistics have a relationship because they are a language that used in social.

Conclusion

Pidgins and Creoles is a social language that create by small social group to understand each others.