Is Swahili a Pidgin?

A blog that I read recently had a post that described the east-African language of Swahili, as a pidgin. Here is a quote: …my mother was born in East Africa (Uganda) and I wanted to feel a trace of what she once knew. Being under this sky, on this land, the pidgin that is Swahili [...]

July 21, 2008 Tags: Linguistics, pidgin, swahili Posted in: Africa, language, Linguistics 6 Comments

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