VE is that the present form of the dialect is the result of a creole
             derived from English and some Western African languages spoken by the
             African slaves. This theory (the creole hypothesis) about the origins of
             the dialect is based on the explanation that the slaves brought to the US
             spoke different Western African languages. In order to communicate with
             each other, they developed a pidgin[4], which combined vocabulary from
             English and their own (Western African) languages with the grammatical
             structure of their native tongue. When the pidgin' was passed on to the
             next generation of the slaves, it became their mother tongue and the new
             creole[5] was born. Several researchers have uncovered vast evidence in
             support of the creole hypothesis. For example, John R. Rickford of Stanford
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