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Conlangery #101: Pidgins and Creoles

Conlangery Podcast

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The Origins of Creole Languages

All languages do everything, it's a take electrical material, it starts to get used in a particular position, it coalesces, it becomes morphology. The only problem is that when there's been about 7,000 years in between that and now, the sources are obscured. And so, in effect for a codliner, looking at creole is extremely instructive because you can see the types of things that human beings do with lexical material at the very beginning stages.

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