![]() Example – Make you no vex me! Which means “Don’t upset me!”ġ8. Example – Abeg! No waste my time! Which means Please! Don’t waste my time!ġ7. Abeg – Please, but usually not a repentant plea. Meaning: Your story sounds suspect/exaggerated.ġ6. What is Nigerian Pidgin English Definition of Nigerian Pidgin English: A variety of English developed in the coastal and delta regions used as a mode of. Example – Your story get k-leg! Which means your story or gist sounds suspect or exaggerated. Dem send you? – Have you been sent to torment me?ġ3. Meaning: Why are you giving me so many problems?ġ1. Example – Why you dey give me wahala? Which means why are you giving me so many problems? Wetin dey happen? – What’s going on? What’s happening?Ĩ. How bodi? / How you dey? – How are you doing today?Ħ. (Listen to how pronounce the first 26 Pidgin English phrases listed below here and don’t forget to add “o” at the end of sentences in Pidgin for extra emphasis, like “Thank you o!”)ġ. Here are 26 Nigerian Pidgin English phrases you need to know. by Peter Stockwell.Even if you don’t find yourself traveling to Nigeria in the distant future, try one of these phrases on one of your Nigerian friends, and fully bask in their glowing response. ![]() ![]() Trask, Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts, 2nd ed., ed. ![]() The result is a creole, and the children who create it are the first native speakers of the creole." (R.L. This happens when the children in a community have nothing but a pidgin to use with other children, in which case the children take the pidgin and turn it into a real language, by fixing and elaborating the grammar and greatly expanding the vocabulary. Third, and most dramatically, it can be turned into a mother tongue. Second, it can remain in use for generations, or even centuries, as has happened with some west African pidgins. This has happened to Hawaiian pidgin, now almost entirely displaced by English, the prestige language of Hawaii. First, it may eventually drop out of use.
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