The Origins of Creole Languages

The slave trade leads to the different languages that you have Africans thrown together on the boats and how do they communicate. These are known as pigeon languages but a Creole is actually a language with an architecture and an operating system of its own. The journey of your book is then examining whether a lot of Indian languages have evolved in a similar way. It's not necessarily that pigeon phase because there was no need to learn some you know words overnight, he says.

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