A Creole is a language that:
A. is acquired after a first language.
B. is a communication system invented by people thrown together without a common language. It typically draws lexical items from one or more of the contact languages, and may develop its own primitive syntax.
C. is learned by children born into a community in which a pidgin language is used as a common means of communication. The children add to the language and develop syntax complexities.
D. is developed by children who were taken from environment and placed in another before their first language syntax was complete.
C
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