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Pidgin, first used by British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century, has become one of the most widely spoken languages in West Africa, with up to 75 million speakers in Nigeria alone. However, it does not have a standard written form. [1] In turn, the BBC developed a "standardised" form of Pidgin ...
Nigerian Pidgin, also known as Naija or Naijá in scholarship, is an English -based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is sometimes referred to as Pijin, Brokun 'Ullu' or " Vernacular ". It can be spoken as a pidgin, a creole, dialect or a decreolised acrolect by different speakers, who may switch between ...
IETF. cpe-011. West African Pidgin English, also known as Guinea Coast Creole English, [2] is a West African pidgin language lexified by English and local African languages. It originated as a language of commerce between British and African slave traders during the period of the transatlantic slave trade. As of 2017, about 75 million people in ...
Bilikisu Labaran. Bilkisu Labaran is a Nigerian journalist, editor and head of Africa News & Current affairs at BBC. [2] [3] She played a vital role in the establiment of BBC pidgin [4] [5] and is the first Nigerian BBC editor. She currently works as an executive at BBC Africa Eye documentaries [6]
Hausa ( / ˈhaʊsə /; [2] Harshen / Halshen Hausa listen ⓘ; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, and Chad, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast. A small number of speakers also ...
Employer (s) BBC World News, BBC Africa, BBC Sport. Mimi Fawaz is a Nigerian-Lebanese sports journalist, show host and presenter who currently works as a sports presenter on Focus on Africa, a BBC news programme broadcast on BBC World News alongside BBC Africa and BBC Sports. She has worked for CNN, ESPN and ITV Television networks.
Languages of Nigeria. There are over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. [1] [2] [3] The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, [4] [5] which was the language of Colonial Nigeria. Nigerian Pidgin – an English-based creole – is spoken by over 60 million people.
There are approximately 375 Afroasiatic languages spoken by over 400 million people. The main subfamilies of Afroasiatic are Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Omotic, Egyptian and Semitic. The Afroasiatic Urheimat is uncertain. The family's most extensive branch, the Semitic languages (including Arabic, Amharic and Hebrew among others), is the only ...