> Trade is not a mother tongue for anyone. It's a sort of
> a magical pidgin.
This is true, but it led me to wonder: what if it did become a mother tongue for someone, and became a creole? Could this have happened some time during the Imperial Age, when the Jrusteli spread Tradetalk widely? If so, where? Or would the magical nature of Tradetalk prevent creolization?
(Creoles occur when children of pidgin-speakers begin using the pidgin, and it becomes a full-blown language.)
David Dunham <mailto:dunham_at_pensee.com> Glorantha/RQ page: <http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html> Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
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