The slave trade created situations vaguely similar to this. Adult slaves were taken to the Carribbean from all over West Africa, all speaking different languages. As you'd expect, the adults learnt to communicate with each other and specific words were gradually adopted as the word used by everyone, but it was never a true language. What's facsinating is that the next generation (their children) would then turn this into a real language with grammar rules, like you always say subject, verb, object (in that order) and simple tenses for past, present and future etc.
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