A Book About Language, With No Phoneme Unturne: How Language Works...
"The established view has been that these languages evolve
independently and each is unique, whether they are based on English
or Danish. But Mr. Crystal says that modern research strongly
suggests that all these languages derive from a 15th-century
Portuguese pidgin. As the Portuguese explored Asia, Africa and the
Americas, this prototypical pidgin spread, and the syntax remained in
place as words changed to adapt to other languages. But there is
still evidence of that old Portuguese pidgin."
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/books/18dick.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin>Link
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