**** Afrogenesis

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A substantial body of evidence has pointed toward African origins for the process of pidginization and creolization. European languages had also begun to be pidginized along the Atlantic coast of Africa as early as, if not earlier than, Atlantic pidgins and creoles had taken shape in the Americas.

• - Sea Islands Creole as an example <[LINK]>
• - A synthetic approach <[LINK]>
• - The earliest documentary evidence of a pidginized variety is African in its origins. <[LINK]>
• - Problems of universality in this approach {<[LINK]> }

{<[LINK]> } Alleyne, Allsop, Hancock, Afrogenesis