However, we found out that no consistent relationship could be found for creole languages between structural and sociolinguistic features. ![]() ![]() There is some strong evidence that this relationship exists in general in languages of the world, which gave us the right to put forward the hypothesis that the connection can be detected by quantitative analysis of pidgin and creole languages. In this study, we tested if there is a relationship between such basic sociolinguistic factors as, for example, size of speaker community, proportion of native speakers, amount of domains of uses, and structural features in pidgin and creole languages. Although there is some amount of studies discussing the relationship between the typological profile and the structural features of creole languages and pidgins, there is not enough general quantitative evidence of the existence of a correlation between the structural features of a language and the sociolinguistic situation in which the language currently exists. ![]() Creole studies as a field of linguistics are often seen as a part of sociolinguistics due to the specific social environment conditions in which creole and pidgin languages develop.
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