![]() Some pidgins have come to be extensively used, such as Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea and the pidgins of the West African coast. Pidgins have been particularly associated with areas settled by European traders examples have been Chinook Jargon, a lingua franca based on an American Indian language and English that was formerly used in Washington and Oregon, and Beach-la-mar, an English-based pidgin of parts of the South Seas. ![]() In such situations the so-called pidgins arise, more or less purposely made up of vocabulary items from each language, with mutual abandonment of grammatical complexities that would cause confusion to either party. This happens when people speaking two different languages have to work together, usually in some form of trade relation or administrative routine. In other circumstances, languages have been deliberately created to facilitate communication with outsiders. Some specialized languages were developed to keep the outsider at bay.
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