Pidgin evolved at the height of the slave trade in the 1700s and 1800s, to enable the buying and selling of millions of human beings.

Since its 2015 debut at The Place Theatre in London, Song Queen: A Pidgin Opera has captivated audiences worldwide, with performances in Lagos, Turin, Bodrum, and Cape Town. This visually and ...

She added that a bonus of volunteering is connecting with the kūpuna (elders) who also volunteer, as well as hearing the sound of pidgin, Hawai‘i Creole. Planting in the Portland dryland garden ...

Long become a cultural punchline for campfire silliness, 'Kumbaya's' actually has a long and detailed folk story that surprises with its radical roots.

In her latest book, Father Tongue, Mother Land, author and linguist Peggy Mohan dives deep into the formation of languages in South Asia. With detailed research, she showcases how migration and ...

The map, from Exploring Africa, has colour-coded each language into the seven families, which include Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Khosian, Niger-Congo / Congo-Kordofanian, Creole, Austronesian ...

After neatly defining the difference between pidgin and creole, Mohan asks why pidgins do not have offspring while the creole situation is quintessentially about a mixed language becoming a “mother ...