(off-list) Re: Creole languages (was Who is Eddy Peters?)

[Mark Odegard]

>That's okay.  I happen to agree with you that English is a creole.  I often
>wonder if it's the only one not to arise traditionally from a pidgin?

Every last member of the Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Uralic ... family of
languages each decends from their own common ancestor, which in turn descend
from more distant (and essentially unrecoverable) ancestral languages.

Creoles and pidgins are the exceptions.
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