pidginization
Comparecreolize
Languages may pidginize or creolize to varying degrees.
Pidginized varieties of many European languages arose.
Native speakers used minimalised, pidginised interlanguage forms when talking to non-native speakers.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Forms of languages & specialist dialects
acrolect
argot
basilect
cant
colloquialism
demotic
jargon
jargonistic
journalese
legalese
lingo
lingua franca
patois
pidgin
pidginization
plain English
Polari
psychobabble
shibboleth
vernacularly