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pidg•in



Pronunciation: (pij'un), [key]
—n.
1. an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation.
2. (loosely) any simplified or broken form of a language, esp. when used for communication between speakers of different languages.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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