Unlocking the Universe of Languages
In the 17th century, Basque whalers and Icelandic farmers developed one of history's most unlikely languages: a pidgin combining the complex, isolated Basque language with North Germanic Icelandic. This article…
Long before English dominated global communication, the world's oceans were a linguistic laboratory where sailors, merchants, and pirates forged simplified contact languages to bridge cultural divides. Known as maritime pidgins,…