Comparisons between Pidgins and ‘Unish’

Kwak, Eun-Joo

doi:10.22425/jul.2003.4.1.17

J. Univers. Lang. 2003; 4(1):17-31

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22425/jul.2003.4.1.17

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Comparisons between Pidgins and ‘Unish’

Eun-Joo Kwak ¹

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Abstract

In this paper, I review major linguistic features of pidgins and com- pare them with those of a new artificial language named ‘Unish’. I will show that although Unish is a constructed language, it is easy and natural by modeling pidgins. Furthermore, I argue that Unish is a proper form of language to carry the role of universal language in the globalization era.

Keywords: pidgins; artificial language; lexicon; linguistic features

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