• AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What’s “heterolingual”? You can only talk to people who speak a different language than the one you use?

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        2 months ago

        Pidgins are languages in their own rights. Maybe code switching would fit better but actually no, that’s on the spectrum of bilingualism.

        Edit: since pidgins (unlike creoles) aren’t used as primary languages, I guess I now get what you mean