Topic > Comparison between Jamaican Creole and Tok Pisin - 1038

This type of contact language occurs between two unrelated languages ​​and is most likely related to trade, migration, or conquest. According to the jargon, there are two phases of pidgin, stabilized and expanded. A pidgin is described by Aitchinson (2014:207) as "a 'marginal' language, used by people who need to communicate for certain limited purposes". Aitchhinson (2014: 216) also describes pidgin as "a fetus with the potential to become a complete language". He also adds that pidgin "is not yet capable of meeting all of a human's communication needs." McArthur (1998:161) agrees with this. He states that pidgins are "simple, clunky languages ​​incapable of nuance, detail, abstraction, and precision." It is often said that pidgin and creole are different, as creoles are more structured and have a written language. In my two examples, these written languages ​​are written almost phonetically, which shows the accent associated with Creole