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West African Pidgin: World Language Against the Grain [PDF]

Africa Spectrum
West African Pidgin (“Pidgin”) is a cluster of related, mutually intelligible, restructured Englishes with up to 140 million speakers in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, and The Gambia.
Kofi Yakpo
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"La lengua de las tribus costeras es medio vasca". Un pidgin vasco y amerindio utilizado por europeos y nativos americanos en Norteamérica, h.1540-h.1640

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1991
Basque fishermen were among the most numerous visitors of the North East coast of America in the 16th and 17th centuries. They traded actively with some of the native tribes on the coast and along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River.
Peter Bakker
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Pidgin picturesque

Landscape Review, 1995
The picturesque has been compared to a language. This paper extends the metaphor to pidgins and creoles to make observations about the intermixing of design languages, namely between the conventions of the picturesque and the indigenous environment of ...
Jacky Bowring
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Icelandic Basque pidgin

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1991
In this paper I present an analysts of what remains of a trade language born in the seventeenth century as a consequence of Basque fishing trips in the North Atlantic.
José Ignacio Hualde
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PIDGIN ENGLISH FUNCTIONING IN NIGERIA [PDF]

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2019
The purpose of the article is to reveal the main features of Pidgin English used on the territory of Nigeria. The author analyses the main historical factors, which made the huge influence on the process of formation and origin of Nigerian Pidgin English.
Tatyana Gennadievna Voloshina
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The existence of Indonesian language: Pidgin or Creole

Journal on English as a Foreign Language, 2016
Indonesian language or sometimes called Bahasa is the national language of Indonesia. It was derived from Malay language and established as a national language in 1928. Until now, the Indonesian language keeps borrowing words from other languages.
Dellis Pratika
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The complementizer "say" in Nigerian Pidgin English – traces of language-internal processes or areal features?

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2016
The paper presents the use of the complementizer say in various types of sentence structures of Nigerian Pidgin English. The data comes from the contemporary language in its written form and is based mostly on transcriptions of Wazobia FM on-air ...
Olga Frąckiewicz
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Pidgin Englisch in Nigeria - Nigerian Pidgin English

, 2013
Historische und sprachliche Analyse des Nigrian Pidgin English.
Andreas Regal
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Pidżin zrodzony z żartu? Przypadek języka kraju San Escobar [PDF]

Język. Religia. Tożsamość, 2021
The article analyzes onomastic material from the map of San Escobar, which was created on the Internet, with the intention of mockery, after a slip of the diplomat Witold Waszczykowski, who in January 2017 listed the non-existent state of San Escobar ...
Ewa Badyda
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Da insularidade ao crioulo – algumas reflexões sobre a construção da identidade social dos cabo-verdianos

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2023
This article proposes to present the issue of insularity in the archipelago of Cape Verde, an African country marked by several centuries of Portuguese colonization, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the interrelation between socio-historical ...
Barbara Hlibowicka-Węglarz
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