What is the difference between a pidgin language and a creole language?

Question

What is the difference between a pidgin language and a creole language?

Answer 1

Simply:

Pidgin Languages aren't a native language. Creoles are what happen when a pidgin language becomes a native language.

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Answer 2

these are definitions straight from the ap human geography text book:

pidgin:  Language that may develop when two groups of people with different languages meet.  This word has some characteristics of each language

creole:  A pidgin language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it

Answer 3

Pidgin is the combination of your native language and the one you must speak.  Chinese speakers often speak a kind of pidginy English.  Creole is more like a combination of two pidgins that became the native language of a people.  I hope that it helped.  Here are two examples.

Pidgin.  You want go there after this?  (This is a single person's interpretation of the language

Creole.  You want go there after this?  (This is spoken by a people as their language