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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014 Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a simplified communication system established by the non-Arabic immigrants to Gulf countries in the Middle East. In the past decades, millions of people with no Arabic skills have come from countries such as Bangladesh, India,
Potsdam, Eric, Alanazi, Mohammad
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Nigerian English: History, functions and features
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 7-18, March 2026.Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi +1 more
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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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Syllable restructuring in early Solomon Islands Pidgin English
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007 The present paper looks at the various syllable restructuring strategies used in early Solomon Islands Pidgin English. These depend on the phonological shape of the etyma and consist of epenthesis, paragoge and consonant deletion.
Andrei A. Avram
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Language Contact and Grammaticalization in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
Academic Journal of Modern PhilologyThe language situation in the countries of the Arab Gulf is a highly complex one. The multilingual landscape is characterized by diglossia (Modern Standard Arabic vs.
Andrei A. Avram
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Pidgins and creolle languages: perspectives of developments
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2014 The article is devoted the issues of new language variety occurrence - pidgins and creolle languages, its status, differences and development perspectives.
N F Mikheeva
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Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 1998 The first linguistic description of RN was published by Olaf Broch in German in 1927 in Archiv für slavishe Philologie and in the same year also in Norwegian, at the request of the editor of the Norwegian philological journal Maal og Minne.
Ingvild Broch
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GRAMMATICALIZATION IN NIGERIAN PIDGIN GRAMATICALIZACIÓN EN EL PIDGIN NIGERIANO
Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2012 Nigerian Pidgin (hereafter NP) has assumed elaborated roles and functions, gaining new grounds in different sociolinguistic domains as a result of its sustained social expansion process.
Eyo Offiong Mensah
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PIDGIN ENGLISH FUNCTIONING IN NIGERIA
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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Reconstrucción fonológica del pidgin afroportugués americano: Las vocales
Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012 En el presente artículo presenta la reconstrucción de las protovocales de un pidgin afroportugués utilizado en América durante el siglo XVII mediante la aplicación del Método Comparativo.
Mario Portilla Chaves
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