ABSTRACT
Pidgins and. creoles have probably existed throughout history in times and places where people of different linguistic backgrounds have come into contact. Examples can be found today in every continent, some of them, like Haitian creole French being related to European languages, others, like Hiri Motu in Papua New Guinea, bring indigenous varieties which facilitate inter-tribal communication in multilingual societies. Many varieties of pidgin and creole Englishes exist today, some of them mutually unintelligible both with standard English and with each other, but all varieties of pidgin and creole English share one common factor. Their vocabularies are almost entirely derived from English.
