PPA

Prime Pidgin of Antarctica (PPA) also known as Prime Antarctic Pidgin (PAP) is a language of the Antarctic Peninsula spoken around the year 2050 that began to form between the 2010s and 2020s. Pidgin emerged in response to the growing communication needs of the multilingual community of scientists living in Antarctica, who switched languages interchangeably, with poor English as the common interlingua. As communication grew, the pidgin grew stronger.

The first children born on the Antarctic Peninsula adopted PPA as their mother tongue. Thus, PPA began to creolize, creating a compact grammar that transformed pidgin into a functional language, from its origins as a simple sum of words without a stable grammar. PPA was the first stage in the development of the first language family known in the Antarctic continent.

Classification and Dialects
As most of its lexicon comes from the Indo-European languages, it can be said to be part of this family; in many respects it can be said to be an English-based pidgin, although it has quite a lot of foreign vocabulary and the grammatical base is un-English.

Like all languages it has dialects, but in the pidgin phase these small variations depend on the origin of the speakers, as each speaks his own language, pidgin emerges as a simple language of commerce.

Phonology and Writing System
The phonology of the PPA pidgin is very unstable, as most of the words retain the pronunciation of their source language. In the creolization phase, the different sounds will begin to form a coherent phonetic set and sound system for vowels and consonants. During the formation of pidgin, languages reduced their phonotactics to a minimum to make their messages more understandable.

At first, the writing system was kept intact, with each word retaining its original spelling as it was written in its language of origin. Later, when pidgin became common, the writing system was reduced to a minimum by eliminating auxiliary signs and all other alphabets, keeping only the basic Latin alphabet of 26 letters. However, words can be written in any of the original alphabets.

Lexicon
Origin of lexicon

Data on word source languages are based on the L1 and L2 of countries with scientific and military stations and bases in Antarctica between 2010 and 2020, with a small addition of the 10 most spoken languages in the world at that time.

The following is a list of the words derived from each language of origin. Most of the words retained their original pronunciation, spelling and meaning in the first phase of the pidgin.

Words derived from the various pidgins are classified into three stratified groups: nuclear, central and peripheral.

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