Undoubtedly the monogenetic hypothesis is the most attractive of the hypothesis that fail to take into account all available external facts. In all its variant forms, the monogenetic hypothesis derives all creoles, or a group of creoles sharing the same European base language, from a single pidgin or “proto-creole”. This common source may be a “nautical jargon” […] or an African of Afro-Portuguese pidgin […].
- Chaudenson (1977), a pag.259-260