Editing Language contact (section)

=== Creation of new languages: creolization and mixed languages ===
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Language contact can also lead to the development of new languages when people without a common language interact closely. Resulting from this contact a [[pidgin]] may develop, which may eventually become a full-fledged [[creole language]] through the process of creolization (though some linguists assert that a creole need not emerge from a pidgin). Prime examples of this are [[Ndyuka language|Aukan]] and [[Saramaccan]], spoken in [[Suriname]], which have vocabulary mainly from Portuguese, English and Dutch.

A much rarer but still observed process, according to some linguists, is the formation of [[mixed language]]s. Whereas creoles are formed by communities lacking a common language, mixed languages are formed by communities fluent in both languages. They tend to inherit much more of the complexity (grammatical, phonological, etc.) of their parent languages, whereas creoles begin as simple languages and then develop in complexity more independently. It is sometimes explained as bilingual communities that no longer identify with the cultures of either of the languages they speak, and seek to develop their own language as an expression of their own cultural uniqueness.