| ➤ comprising the wide range of English-based creoles and so-called 'pidgins', which evolved from 17th/18th century (in the context of the etholinguistic upheavals caused by slave-trading and colonisation) but many of which are now reconverging in the direction of Global English # the postulated historical sequence of pidgin and creole, and the contrasted use of these terms, is irrelevant to the classification of established modern idioms; previous applications of 'pidgin' are treated below as creole (with alias pijin). 𝒮 Latin script (also Ndjuka script) |