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  • noun linguistics The study of creole languages.

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  • In the 1890s and afterwards, the increased spread of English favored the use of an English-based pidgin instead, which, once nativized as the first language of children, developed into a creole which today is misleadingly called Hawaiian 'Pidgin'. creolistics because, unlike most other creoles found in the mind, and / or possibly common environmental conditions, rather than structures derived from the same 'substrate' languages.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Siegel J (2005) 'Creolization outside creolistics'.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Hawaiian Creole is well-studied in the field of [[linguistics]] known as [[creolistics]] because, unlike most other creoles found in the [[Atlantic Ocean | Atlantic]] and [[Pacific Ocean | Pacific]] regions, the native 'substrate' languages of the first speakers were mainly Asian or Polynesian rather than [[Africa]] n.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Hawaiian Creole is well-studied in the field of [[linguistics]] known as [[creolistics]] because, unlike most other creoles found in the [[Atlantic Ocean | Atlantic]] and [[Pacific Ocean | Pacific]] regions, the native 'substrate' languages of the first speakers were mainly Asian or Polynesian rather than [[Africa]] n.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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