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Language acquisition

language and gradually become the primary language of a linguistic community. Basically pidgin and creole languages mean the same. Pidgin language becomes creole when it becomes a community's language, replacing community's original language. About 15 million people speak creolized languages throughout the world. Their vocabularies are often derived from Europe's major languages. Some of those creole languages are French-based Creole in Haiti, Mauritius, and Dominica; Gullah language in east- central coastal states of U.S.; Jamaican Creole; Krio; Pidgin English et al. (Creole 1). Artificial languages are one more way to abate the differences between languages and misunderstandings those differences create. Since 17th-century, there has been an enormous number of artificial languages introduced. An interesting example was the language Solresol, developed by Jean Franois Sudre in 1817. All its words were formed of combinations of the syllables designating the notes of the musical scale (Artificial Languages 1). One recent attempt is Hans Freudenthal's Lincos, intended as a program for establishing communication with extraterrestrial intelligent beings should they be located. "Although some natural languages have been widely used around the world at various times as a common means of communication among speakers of various languages, it is uncertain that any one language will ever be adopted universally." English and French are difficult to learn and are too closely identified with particular national groups. Basic English, proposed in 1932, was an attempt to remedy the first impediment by reducing the vocabulary to a core of 850 words. For example, enter is replaced by go into, and precede by go in front of (Artificial Language 2). But of all the artificial languages, Esperanto is the most popular. It has a highly regular system of word information, with roots drawn from French, English, German, Latin, and Russian. A simple and consisten...

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