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Nigerian Pidgin, also known simply as Pidgin or Broken (Broken English) or as Naijá in scholarship, is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is sometimes referred to as Pijin or Vernacular .
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BBC News Pidgin is an online news service in West African Pidgin English that was launched by the BBC World Service in 2017. [1] [2] It is based in Lagos, Nigeria.[1]Pidgin, first used by British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century, has become one of the most widely spoken languages in West Africa, with up to 75 million speakers in Nigeria alone.
Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English. Pidgins that are spoken as first languages become creoles . English-based pidgins that became stable contact languages, and which have some documentation, include the following:
Yet it is the Nigerian Pidgin that is somehow connected to their language. Not only is it laughable, but the reality is that it is the Saro Creoles of recaptive stock from Freetown, resettled in Nigeria (1800s), who are the progenitors of the variety of 'Pidgin' spoken in Nigeria today. Instead of highlighting this historical fact in the ...
Furthermore, unlike Nigerian pidgin, the use of Ghanaian pidgin is gendered. [citation needed] Student Pidgin originated in prestigious Ghanaian all-male secondary schools in the 1960s–1970s, [23] and there has been an ever-increasing number of female students now also using SP. A particularly basic variety used by illiterate speakers is ...
Nigerian English, also known as Nigerian Standard English, is a variety of English spoken in Nigeria. [1] Based on British and American English, the dialect contains various loanwords and collocations from the native languages of Nigeria, due to the need to express concepts specific to the cultures of ethnic groups in the nation (e.g. senior wife).
It is disputed to what extent the various English-based creoles of the world share a common origin. The monogenesis hypothesis [2] [3] posits that a single language, commonly called proto–Pidgin English, spoken along the West African coast in the early sixteenth century, was ancestral to most or all of the Atlantic creoles (the English creoles of both West Africa and the Americas).