![]() However, this language does not exist any longer and has died. An example therefore is “Russennorsk” that developed from the need of Russian sailors and Norwegian fishermen who needed to communicate somehow (Singh 2000: 2). It is about the contact between people speaking different languages who need a certain language to get in contact. Mark Sebba does therefore give his book the title “Contact Languages” and the subtitle is “Pidgins and Creoles”. “Indeed, language contact seems likely to be nearly as old as language itself” (Holm 2000: 14). It is said to have started with the European colonization overseas in the fifteenth century, although it is supposed that there must have been lots of language contact before. The development of Pidgins and Creoles has a long history. ![]() ![]() According to the commentary for the seminar, “sociolinguists study the social and situational variables that govern variation within a language.” Pidgins and Creoles seem to be very interesting and fascinating for sociolinguists because this topic contains several areas of research like the origin of language, language loss, social contact and language prestige and definitely the rapid development and change of these languages. The field of sociolinguistics deals with the relationship between language and society. ![]()
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