This issue is still being debated but pidgins and creoles are, in general, considered independent linguistic systems. Similar to operating principles . This is the ultimate state of semantic bleaching , the end product of the process. The language which appears to provide most of the lexicon to a pidgin. The prestige language which supplies the bulk of the vocabulary is the one which is usually thought as being pidginized .
Lexical items are the easiest elements to be borrowed from language to language.
The vocabulary of a pidgin is usually drawn primarily from the prestige language of the dominant group in a situation of language contact. Its grammar, however, retains many features of the native languages of the subordinate groups. Linguistic data collected from the same informants at different ages, in order to study language acquisition over a period of time. In creolistics , it is used to study the development of a creole along the creole continuum .