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prepidgin (複数形 prepidgins)

1. (linguistics) An early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.
   • 2010, Robert B. Kaplan, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics (page 383)

     An earlier prepidgin or jargon, which is quite variable in structure, may later become a stable pidgin, which has developed its own lexical and grammatical norms.