... on the plantations, they were separated from the people of their community and mixed with people of various other communities, therefore they were unable to communicate with each other. In order to finally communicate with their peers on the plantations, and with their bosses, they needed to form a language in which they could communicate therefore creating a new language - pidgin. European expansion and colonization during the 16th-19th centuries was a primary catalyst for many of the pidgins known today. Their colonization had seen the appearance of new varieties of English worldwide. Some of these remain local languages of relatively low social status while others have become codified, standardized and adopted by newly independent states as an official or main language. Prominent languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and Dutch were the languages of the Colonizers. They traveled and set up ports in coastal towns where shipping and ...

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