>It's my understanding that that's *not* always correct. There were a few
>pidgins that creolized with no child speakers, as the plantation workers
>were
>all men who worked for ten year spans, with no women or children allowed
>(by
>decree of the owner of the plantation).
Can you give an example? Pidgins and Creoles interest me.
>Several of us got together to populate a world with languages, based on two
>proto-languages, which weren't languages, but word lists. It happened
>during
>a summer, and lost steam when school started up...
Ah, okay. :(
>No: Own a copy of. :) If I had the copyright, though...
Passed on the ref to my gaming friends here.
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