![]() ![]() ![]() You can listen to the full interview with The World's Marco Werman above. When I meet Nigerians abroad, the first thing we want to do is speak Pidgin." West African Pidgin English bin serve as a language of commerce dem bin dey speak along di waterside area during di Atlantic slave trade inside di late 17th and 18th Centuries. "Whether you're Hausa from the north, you're Yoruba from the west, or Ibo from the east, it unites all of us. Cameroon is a bilingual country That means it. So it shows the popularity of this form of language. ![]() Labaran is excited to see the enthusiasm for Pidgin. "One of the fantastic things about is its fluidity, its constantly changing nature, its flexibility in terms of the grammar that you use," she said. Just recently, the BBC launched a pidgin service for West and Central Africa in August 2017. West African Pidgin English, also called Guinea Coast Creole English, was a language of commerce spoken along the coast during the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th and 18th Centuries. Young people have embraced Pidgin. Music, movies and other media increasingly use Pidgin. When it launched about a decade ago, Nigeria's first Pidgin radio station, Wazobia FM, faced a lot of criticism from those who considered Pidgin "street slang" that would make other languages less pure. "When I was a kid in school, we used to get beaten - actually physically beaten - for speaking Pidgin, because at the time the attitude was that Pidgin is bad English." West African Pidgin English developed during the slave trade in 17th and 18th centuries as a mix of English and local languages.īilkisu Labaran, the BBC's editorial lead in Nigeria, says the language used to have negative connotations. It's a chance to better cover the region, as well as pioneer a standardized written form of Pidgin, which is primarily a form of oral communication. accountbox picotec daterange Jfolder Uncategorized speakernotes 0. They've launched a Pidgin language digital platform for West Africa based in Nigeria. Millions of people speak this informal language, a constantly evolving mix of English and local languages, as a way to overcome language barriers in the region.Īnd the BBC sees an opening for new audiences. A lingua franca is a necessity for day-to-day life. ![]() People in West African countries speak hundreds of languages - more than 520 are spoken in Nigeria alone. ![]()
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