Pidgin.im - Pidgin :: Pidgin, the universal chat client

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. 🔊