Moreover, the degree of formal simplicity is much greater with pidgins than with koinai, to the extent that pidgins may be mutually unintelligible with their parent languages, whereas this is not the case with koinai. Sociolinguists have further refined the concept to discuss such things as distinctions between so-called ‘regional’ koinai (of which the original Greek koine is an example) versus ‘immigrant’ koinai (such as Israeli Hebrew or Fiji Hindustani), and ‘natural’ koinai (such as some German varieties examined by Mühlhäusler).

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Tuesday morning’s explosion occurred at a small coal mine when 20 miners were working underground in the city of Shizuishan in the northwestern region of Ningxia, the official Xinhua News Agency said. State broadcaster CCTV had said in the morning that the blast had killed 19 people, but later reported 18 deaths.[…] Calls to the Shizuishan city government Wednesday rang unanswered.