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What are some examples of pidgin?

Pidgin borrows words from indigenous languages and English. For instance, ‘Walahi’ is a Hausa word that means ‘sincerely or truthfully’. ‘Koro’ is borrowed from Isoko while ‘Lungu’ is Hausa; meaning ‘short cut’, ‘dark alley’ or ‘dirt road’ depending on the context it is used in. There’s also Obodo Oyibo, borrowed ...

What does Pidgin English mean?

The Pidgin English language is a mixture of English and local languages that allows people who do not speak a common language to communicate with each other. Due to the diversity of ethnic groups in most African countries, Pidgin has developed as a language that can be understood by many different people.

Is Pidgin a real language?

pidgins are real languages their just created with the purpose of making 2 communities communicable for example Nigerian pidgin , this is a real language used to make communication with the different tribes of Nigeria possible and its passed on not like a native language but when a child is older here's how a someone from the Yoruba tribe described it to me ”at home (Nigeria)we speak many languages and you can tell where a person is from by their name but we also speak English in a way but ...

How to use "Pidgin" in a sentence?

a grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language Speaking in pidgin, both the Nigerian and the Ghanaian were able to understand each other. 🔊 Although they did not speak the same native language, the friends were able to communicate because they both spoke pidgin. 🔊