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Language Starts Over—Signs of the New Introduction  
  
314   09:03 صباحاً   date: 2024-01-22
Author : P. John McWhorter
Book or Source : The Story of Human Language
Page and Part : 23-30

Language Starts Over—Signs of the New Introduction

A. A question looming at this point is: if creoles are real languages, then how are they different from simple language mixture? The answer is that because creoles are new languages, they have not had time to amass the “mess” that we have seen in old languages.

 

B. It has often been said that creoles are different from old languages only in terms of their history. But this is an oversimplification—creoles are more interesting than that.