“Pidgin is the language spoken among so many people across West and Central Africa and for the first time we will be connecting with the next generation of speakers. ![]() It’s the BBC’s biggest expansion in 40 years, and means the broadcaster will join the ranks of local stations that already reach audiences of millions through speaking Pidgin - a mashup of English, Portuguese, and a bunch of local languages. Eme) A study of the history of Naijá words (David Oshorenoya Esizimetor) Pidgin English in Ghanaian churches (George Kodie Frimpong) Pidgin, 'broken' English and othering in Ghanaian literature (Kari Dako and Helen Yitah).On Monday, BBC World Service launched a Pidgin service, unveiling a website and radio bulletins that will run entirely in the lingua franca spoken across West Africa. Henry) The question of the superstrate and substrate in Nigerian Pidgin (Davidson U. This is followed by seven articles: On the origins of locative 'for' in West African pidgin English: a componential approach (Micah Corum) The interaction of declarative & procedural memory in the process of creolization: the case of Sierra Leone Krio (Malcolm Awadajin Finney) Establishing the Kromanti-Akan link: evidence from the occurrence of phonemic /r/ (Audene S. The volume opens with a sociolinguistic overview of the three major West African English pidgins: the Ghanaian, the Nigerian and the Cameroonian (Christine I. This special issue contains papers presented at the conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages (SPCL) held at the University of Ghana, Legon, 2-6 August 2011. Legon Journal of the Humanities (ISSN 0855-1502) Special issue on aspects of Creole and pidgin languages with reference to West Africa, from presentations at the SPCL conference at the University of Ghana, Legon, August 2nd-6th 2011 The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
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