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pidginize, v.|ˈpɪdʒɪnaɪz|
[f. pidgin b. + -ize.]
To produce a simplified or pidgin form of (a language). So pidginiˈzation, the fact or process of pidginizing; a pidginized language; ˈpidginized ppl. a.
1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. i. ii. 35 This ‘pidginization’ [in Afrikaans] is thought to be due to sudden contact with a Creolized language, in this case a blend called Malayo-Portuguese. 1937J. R. Firth Tongues of Men vi. 80 If English were to be pidginized the simplification of pronunciation would have to be based on those differences between sounds which most men could hear..without expert tuition. 1949[see creolized ppl. a. 2]. 1956J. Lotz in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 14/1 Various attempts at an international language like Esperanto or Basic English either end up as incomplete replicas of natural languages or as primitive pidginizations. 1962Listener 27 Sept. 467/1 The more pidginised the language becomes, obviously the less useful English can be as a world language. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English iii. 135 Theoretically, any language can be pidginized, although historically not all have been. 1974L. Todd Pidgins & Creoles i. 5 Pidginization and creolization may have been much more prevalent in language change than linguists have hitherto acknowledged. 1977Language LIII. 495/1 First he discusses borrowings from American Indian languages, particularly the pidginized forms that underwent various semantic shifts and are still current, such as bury the hatchet and Great White Father. |