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Where To Find Pidgin News by nensamuel: 1:55pm On Oct 13, 2017
Before I continue, let me give u a brief history on pidgin and where it was found in African.

West African pidgin known as Guinea coast creole English was the lingua franca, or language of commerce, spoken along the West African coast during the period of Atlantic slave trade. At that point, it became a creole language.

Pidgin was found in Africa (West African Pidgins include Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroonian Pidgin, Sierra Leone Krio), Indonesia (Tok Pisin, spoken in Papua New Guinea), parts of Asia and the Caribbean. English derived Pidgins are inventive, innovative, and often quite literal. For example in Tok Pisin, 'gras bilong het' (or grass belong head) simply means 'hair'.

But here in Nigeria, pidgin is mostly found in the oil rich states where there is much population.

Pidgins are language that grows out of necessity when groups of people that don’t share a common language must interact with each other. Pidgins are a mixture of words from different language, and feature a simpler grammatical structure and smaller vocabulary. With extended use over time, a pidgin language develops and becomes a common mode of communication. Pidgin has been very popular that both local and international sites reported news in pidgin, one of the e.g. one local site that report news in pidgin is Newsinpidgin.ng and international sites that report news in pidgin is (bbc.com/pidgin). Most of the newspaper that reported news in pidgin, e.g. of one it is the daily newspaper.

Here are some sites where you can find news in pidgin.

1. Newsinpidgin.ng: on this site they reported their news in pidgin, it has different categories which are:

Politic
BUHARI TELL US SAY, MAKE WE WORK FOR NORTHERN NIGERIA ALONE ” – World Bank



Gist
DAVIDO DON UPLOAD IM OWN CCTV VIDEO AS IM DEY INNOCENT (Video Inside)

Entertainment
POLICE DON ARREST DAVIDO FOR MURDER WITH CCTV EVIDENC



Sport
ZAMBIAN FANS WANT MAKE FIFA ORDER REPLAY OF D MATCH WITH NAIJA



2.bbc.com/pidgin] Bbc.com/pidgin: they also report in different categories such as news, sport weather, arts etc.

3. Thepipusnetwork.com/: it has different categories, e.g. download, plugins, help, about, news and development.

Pidgin is a common language used for interaction; here are top 5 cities where pidgin is well spoken.

1. Warri: in Warri they don’t regard English as one because it is said that Nigerian pidgin was originated in Delta state Warri.
2. Lagos: Lagos state, it is said to be another cities where pidgin is commonly found because of the geto boys and girls.
3. Port Harcourt: if anybody who grows up in river state speaks, there will be a great different because of his /her pronunciation. Everything will end up in pidgin.
4. Benin
5. Abuja
6. Yenagoa
7. Lokaja
8. Calabar

In summary, with the sites and cites listed above will make you know where pidgin is well spoken in Nigeria, and where you can even get international site where news is reported in pidgin.

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