Monogenetic theory of pidgins

So, have you ever tried to talk to someone who doesn't speak the same language as you? It can be pretty hard, right? Well, imagine a whole group of people who speak different languages trying to talk to each other! That's where pidgins come in.

A pidgin is a sort of "mini language" that's created when people who don't speak the same language try to communicate with each other. It's usually very simple and only has a few words or short phrases. But pidgins can be really important, because they allow people who would otherwise not be able to communicate to at least understand each other a little bit.

Now, the monogenetic theory of pidgins is basically an idea people have about where pidgins come from. "Mono-" means "one," so this theory suggests that there was just one pidgin language that a whole bunch of different groups of people created when they had to communicate with each other. And then, as people used and developed this one pidgin language, different groups may have added their own words or ways of speaking to it, and eventually it might have turned into a creole language that was more complex and had its own grammar rules.

So, in short, the monogenetic theory of pidgins is a way of explaining how pidgin languages might have originally developed from one simple language that many different groups of people used to communicate with each other.