The cornerstone of creolization is the reparation of a pidgin’s linguistic deficiencies. One way this is accomplished is by expanding the usual, bare-boned 300-word vocabulary of a pidgin to between 1,000 and 3,000 words (...)

http://www.nchc-ureca.com/jargons-and-pidgins.html

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