Pidgin and creole languages

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Pidgin and creole languages has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.

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Jared DiamondAmerican geographer, historian and author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings"

  • Diamond says children of pidgin-speaking parents spontaneously transformed pidgin into a full creole language with grammar and tenses within a decade.

    “the children themselves, within a decade, modified spontaneously, not consciously, modified pidgin to become a full language with a grammar and tenses and future tense and prepositions”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2549 - Jared Diamond (Sep 3, 2026) · Listen from 1:46:07

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  • #2549 - Jared Diamond

    The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 3, 2026 · 2 h 34 min

    Jared Diamond talks with Joe Rogan about leadership, the rise of world religions, the origins of writing, language, and cannibalism and Kuru in New Guinea.