> > perhaps the creoles are spoken by those who were participating in, but
not actively >>travelling in the trade network.
Why would they speak such a Creole? Where did it come from? What is the
linguistic context which would produce speakers of this creole? Creoles
typically emerge when native speakers learn as a first language, what is a
pidgin or second language for their parents. Why would anyone not
"travelling in the trade network" replace their own language by a pidgin,
and start speaking it in the home?
The concept is not really believable.
Peter