
Conlangery #101: Pidgins and Creoles
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The Origins of Creoles
A lot of the Creoles that were under discussion were either English or French-based, those were the lexifiers. So shouldn't be surprising if two entirely unrelated English-based Creoles looked very similar, so I don't know But beyond that though, there were two theories, one was Derek Vickersen's bioprogram, and the other was John McWhorter's prototype theory.
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