prepidgin
nounEtymology From pre- + pidgin.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences An early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.
- 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.2010, Robert B. Kaplan, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, page 383: