verb
- transforms a language into a pidgin or causes it to become simplified for basic communication between speakers of different languages
Usage: linguistics; third person singular present tense
Examples
- The trading post pidginizes the local language for commerce.
- Contact with foreign merchants pidginizes the native tongue.
- Economic necessity pidginizes communication between groups.
- The port city pidginizes multiple languages for trade.
- Immigration pidginizes the host country’s language patterns.