What is pidgin?

A. a rhythmic sublanguage present in any human language as the result of a universally shared mutation
B. a set of languages believed to be most like the original human language, spoken by a small population of Indian Ocean islanders
C. a mixed language that develops to ease communication between members of different cultures in contact, usually in situations of trade or colonial domination
D. metalanguage, developed by computer programmers, that has yielded valuable insights into the workings of the human brain
E. a partial language that results from primitive tribes' attempts to learn the language of a modern industrialized state


Answer: C

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