Nigerian Pidgin
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nigerian-pidgin-175-3371177
title:
Nigerian Pidgin
text:
Nigerian Pidgin, also known 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. It can be spoken as a pidgin, a creole, dialect or a decreolised acrolect by different speakers, who may switch between these forms depending on the social setting. In the 2010s, a common orthography was developed for Pidgin which has been gaining significant popularity in giving the language a harmonized
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encyclopedia
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English-based creole languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Pidgin
date created:
2005-03-24T18:55:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T13:43:52Z
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