prepidgin
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]prepidgin (plural prepidgins)
- (linguistics) An early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.
- 2010, Robert B. Kaplan, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, page 383:
- An earlier prepidgin or jargon, which is quite variable in structure, may later become a stable pidgin, which has developed its own lexical and grammatical norms.