Given below are two statements:
Statement I: A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to communicate using the most obvious features of each other’s language.
Statement II: Notwithstanding the number of years a pidgin is spoken, it can never become the mother tongue of a community.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1
Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
2
Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
3
Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
4
Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.