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  • noun linguistics The development of a pidgin language.

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  • For the communities of children growing up around Irish-medium schools in urban centres it may be right to speak of pidginization and creolization along with a lot of clever inter-language play like the recent ‘cad-ever'.

    languagehat.com: THE FUTURE OF IRISH. 2004

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