Pidgin

/ˈpɪ.d͡ʒən/

Synonyms for "pidgin" (17 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

Noun(2 words)
contact languagehybrid

Strong matches (5)

Noun(3 words)

Related words (8)

Noun(7 words)
lingua francamixednonstandardpatchworkrudimentarysimplifiedsimplified language
talkee talkee

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

5 entries
artificial languagefigurative languagelanguagelinguistic varietymetaphor

More specific

12 entries
English based pidginFrench based pidginNigerian PidginTok Pisincrosslingual discoursehybrid registerlinguistic metaphormilitary pidginmixed language usemixed metaphorpidginized speechtrade pidgin

Collocations

9 entries
English based pidginmilitary pidginpidgin Englishpidgin discoursepidgin grammarpidgin languagepidgin registerpidgin vocabularytrade pidgin

Inflections

3 entries
more pidginmost pidginpidgins

Derivations

9 entries

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The pidgin has no native speakers.

Source: tatoeba (841114)

Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords.

Source: tatoeba (942192)

Children don't grow up speaking pidgin languages; they turn them into real languages: creoles.

Source: tatoeba (2028110)

In some cases, pidgin became a first language.

Source: tatoeba (2265315)

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