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Pidgins are languages that are born after contact between at least two languages . As ____________________ pidgins developed during the period of empire and international trade , one of the language 'parents' was frequently a European language such as French or English , and the other language parent was the language of the people with whom the Europeans were ____________________ or whom they were colonizing . Usually one of the languages provided the majority of ____________________ items and the other provided the grammatical structure . When pidgins become learned as a mother tongue , they become ____________________ as creoles . I am not going to discuss pidgins and ____________________ and contact languages as such in this book in ____________________ depth .