Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. language-related concepts
5. [languages and writing systems]
6. [languages and writing systems by general type]
7. languages (established systems of communication)

Anotations

Scope note:

Languages containing lexical and other features from two or more languages, characteristically with simplified grammar and a smaller vocabulary than the languages from which the pidgin language is derived. Pidgins have no native speakers, as the populations that use them during occasional trade contacts. The term originally referred to languages that developed out of sporadic and limited contacts between Europeans and non-Europeans.