pidonation
Pidonation is a term used in linguistics to refer to the process by which a pidgin language arises and is maintained within multilingual contact situations. The coinage emphasizes pidonation as an active sociolinguistic process—how communities negotiate a shared means of communication and how the resulting pidgin functions within social networks. The term is not universally adopted; many scholars use pidginization to describe the same phenomena, and some reserve pidonation for the resultant language rather than the process.
In practice, pidonation occurs in contexts of intense language contact, such as trade, migration, or colonial
If children acquire the pidgin as a first language, the contact system may stabilize and evolve into