A Pidgin is a:
A. second language.
B. 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. language developed by children who were taken out of one environment and placed in another before their first language syntax was complete.
D. language that develops in second generations from the simple language that two groups have developed to communicate in the absence of a common language.
B
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