A term of disputed origin, one option makes it derive from pigeon english, English of pigeon (messenger), thus being an anglicism. As the comrades say, it is a simple and mixed language, the result of the collective encounter of speakers who do not know the language of their interlocutors, as in the case of the conquistadors with the indigenous peoples or of the merchants, for example Genoese, with other peoples of the Mediterranean. In these cases, the morphology and syntax are often very imperfect. A case of pidgin can be found in the Mediterranean sabir.
It is a way of calling any lingua franca, used by people who speak different languages but to communicate end up creating a phonetic combination of simple structures, with a disjointed grammar, imposed by the need to understand each other. There is a large number of pidgines, and they appear where two or more peoples with different languages are forced to live or trade.
