The restaurant owner could only speak pidgin English.
The noun "chow" was in the vocabulary of the pidgin English used by Westerners and Chinese merchants until the mid-20th century.
Prof Kirkpatrick also provides this sample of Nigerian pidgin English: "Monkey DE work, baboon dey chop" (Monkeys work, baboons eat).
Today most young Indians speak only English or are bilingual in English and Afrikaans, though they may continue to chat at home in a kind of pidgin English larded with Indian and Zulu.
And after the 1730s,the English-based languages(mainly the Chinese pidgin English)played the main role.
a creole language featuring its unique blend of African tongues and pidgin English.
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