LINC47H3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 notes for LINC47
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Most of the pidgin and creole languages started after western europeans began establishing overseas colonies in the 15thn century. Reason to believe that more existed in earlier times than the two that have been documented: Lingua franca= pidgin language that was spoken in the mediterrean at the 1200 as a romance language. Language contact seems likely to be nearly as old as language itself. H/e, languages have not been recorded in writing until the last few millennia and missed languages have usually been among the last to be written down. Zyhlarz(1932-3) considered the language of ancient egypt, 1st recorded in hieroglyphs in the 3rd millennium bc, to have grown out of trade language. A pidgin that developed among several afro-asiatic languages which came into contact in the nile valley. If this is the case, it was essentially a creole language.
