Prepidgin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.

    "An earlier prepidgin or jargon, which is quite variable in structure, may later become a stable pidgin, which has developed its own lexical and grammatical norms."

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"An earlier prepidgin or jargon, which is quite variable in structure, may later become a stable pidgin, which has developed its own lexical and grammatical norms."

Etymology

From pre- + pidgin.

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