![]() ![]() ![]() Another Igbo word that is often used in Nigerian Pidgin is biko, which comes from the Igbo word for 'please.' For example, the sentence, 'Biko free me. 10 Unu has also found its way to Jamaican patois, with the same meaning as in Nigerian Pidgin. Huber, 1999 on Ghanaian Pidgin English Elugbe and Omamor, 1991 and Faraclas, 1996 on Nigerian Pidgin English and Mbassi-Manga, 1973 and de FĂ©ral, 1989 on Cameroon Pidgin English), but also on our own research, which is based on dozens of interviews with speakers of West African Pidgin English. For example, 'Una dey mad' in Nigerian Pidgin translates to, 'You people are crazy.' in English. Considering differences on the phonetic, grammatical, and lexical level, we will draw from findings by other linguists who have investigated individual varieties of West African Pidgin English (e.g. If someone is speaking their own language simply or another language badly and is trying to communicate, you can say that they are speaking, for example, pidgin. Preverbal go and bin function as tense markers, indicating future (posterior) and past (anterior) time reference respectively. Our paper is intended to be the first descriptive and systematic account of features that distinguish these varieties from one another. Cameroon Pidgin English exhibits an inventory of four distinct preverbal markers of tense and aspect: go, bin, di, and don, with its negated form neba. ![]() Ghanaian Pidgin English, Nigerian Pidgin English, and Cameroon Pidgin English, have been lacking so far, if one disregards the listing of diagnostic features in Huber (1999) and some implicit comparisons in Njeuma (1995). Similar efforts with respect to the national varieties of Pidgin English spoken in West Africa. Simo Bobda, 1995, 2000a, b, 2003 Simo Bobda et al., 1999), but also with the lexicon ( Wolf and Igboanusi, 2003). ABSTRACT: In recent years, a number of studies on the national varieties of West African Standard English have taken a comparative perspective, mostly dealing with phonetics (e.g. ![]()
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