LIN251H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Indentured Servant, Ecclesiastical Latin, Vedic Sanskrit
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Jargons the first contact between people who do not share a language. Is a small-scale means of communication few words, little structure. Note: not the obscure vocabulary of a profession; do not mix denotation and connotation. Begins as word exchanges of traders and tourists with locals. A language that is born when groups of people who do not speak the same language come in contact due to exploration, trade, colonization, enforced labour. Limited vocab, simplified structures, no native speakers when it is first used as a language. Language that is created when groups of people who do not speak the same language come into extensive contact. The language has full vocab, complex grammar. Note: definitions of pidgins and creoles are controversial. The dominant language used in the mix is called the superstrate: also contributes most of the vocabulary; known as lexifier language. The languages of the powerless are the substrate. Pidgins and creols share a common social history.
