Thus, pidginization seems to have happened – and seems still to happen – repeatedly, for it is one of the basic means by which linguistic contact is made among speakers of different lan- guages who find themselves in an asymmetrical social relationship, i.e., one in which there is a serious imbalance of power. The pidgin comes about from the need to communicate, particularly when those who need to communicate speak a variety of languages and the speakers of the ‘target’ language are ‘superior’ in some sense and perhaps transient too. Whatever their origins, it is generally acknowledged that a pidgin is almost always involved in the earliest stage of a creole.
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