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Transmission

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The learning and passing on of information between people in a group

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Pidgin

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A simplified mix of languages, used to communicate between people who do not share the same language

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Creole

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A natural language, spoken by native speakers, which has developed from a mixture of languages

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Protolanguage

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A common ancestor of modern languages

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