Jabal al-Lughat

Azeb Amha recently directed my attention to a very interesting passage in Kofi Yakpo's grammar of Pichi , the English-based creole spoke...

I recently finished reading Four Months in Algeria , a travel diary by the English Rev. J. W. Blakesley published in 1859. It's mostly...

Any readers interested in pidgins, creoles, or mixed languages (one of those things is not like the others!) will want to know that the data...

Mi star trovato un bonu libro sopra il sabir: Dictionnaire de la langue franque ou petit mauresque . Avanti l'attaca del Fransis, l...

Some years ago, browsing in a bookstore, I came across a mention of a Mauritanian Arabic-based pidgin recorded by the medieval geographer Al...

It should be unsurprising that a pidgin trade-Arabic has evolved in the Gulf, given the incredibly large proportion of the population from n...