Native American Pidgin English is much more similar to English than are many other English-based pidgins, and it could be considered a mere ethnolect of American English.
The earliest variety of Pidgin English to appear in British North America is AIPE.[1] AIPE was used by both Europeans and the Native Americans in the contact situation and is therefore considered to be a true pidgin.[2] A pidgin language is made up of two languages sometimes spoken by only one group. However, because AIPE was spoken by both groups, some would say that makes it as a true pidgin. The European people are the ones who taught the Native Americans how to speak English. They developed AIPE together, which helped them communicate more efficiently.[3]
Native American Pidgin English’s phonology is characterized primarily by decreasing the English phonemic record from definite exchanges and the loss of some phonemes, together with other distributed phenomena.[4]
^Leechman, Douglas; Hall, Robert A. (1955). "Native American Pidgin English: Attestations and Grammatical Peculiarities". American Speech. 30 (3): 163–171. doi:10.2307/453934. JSTOR453934.
^Leechman, Douglas; Hall, Robert A. (1955). "Native American Pidgin English: Attestations and Grammatical Peculiarities". American Speech. 30 (3): 163–171. doi:10.2307/453934. JSTOR453934.
^Leechman, Douglas; Hall, Robert A. (1955). "Native American Pidgin English: Attestations and Grammatical Peculiarities". American Speech. 30 (3): 163–171. doi:10.2307/453934. JSTOR453934.
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Jump up ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). American Indian Pidgin English. Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Leechman, Douglas, and Robert A. Hall. American Indian Pidgin English: Attestations and Grammatical Peculiarities. American Speech 30, no. 3 (1955): 163-71. doi:10.2307/453934