What does the linguistics term creole mean?
- A dialect of French
- A language which is adopted from a pidgin language, but is more complex, with its own grammatical rules.
- A person who speaks a pidgin
- A person descended from slaves who lives in Louisiana
Answer
The correct answer is B) A language which is adopted from a pidgin language, but is more complex, with its own grammatical rules..
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