 They did so for commercial, aesthetic, ideological and technological reasons (to facilitate trade transactions, express philosophical or scientific ideas unavailable in their original idioms, enrich and adapt their languages to new realities, subvert a dominant colonial literary canon by deliberately introducing words from the colonized peoples' idiom).Trade and colonization have been the main vehicles of linguistic hybridization across history.Since the classical conquests, both the colonizers and colonized tapped into each other's languages.