![]() ![]() However, there are also pidgins spoken in parts of Africa, South America, and southeast Asia that are based on languages other than those of the colonial powers. For example, the establishment of plantation economies in the Caribbean, with large groups of slaves from different language backgrounds who came from West Africa, gave rise to a number of pidgins based on English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese. ![]() The major languages are usually the languages of the former major colonial powers, such as English, French, and Portuguese. ![]() Usually a pidgin language is a blend of the vocabulary of one major language with the grammar of one or more other languages. Nobody speaks a pidgin as their first language. Pidgin: Used to mean keep going, long live.Pidgins are “on-the-spot” languages that develop when people with no common language come into contact with each other. O bossoĭuala: From ‘O boso’, meaning in front, ahead, long live. Nyangoĭuala: From ‘Nyango’, meaning mother, mummy.Įxample: Na som nyango so. Pidgin: Used to mean meat, animal (insultive).Įxample: Nyama!! – You beast!!, Dat nyama get taste. ![]() Nikaĭuala: From ‘Ninka’, meaning like this, like that and ‘Ninka so’ / ‘Ninka mene’, meaning that’s right!, yeah right!? BoleĮxamples: A dun bolo sotey a taya! – I am exhausted from all that work! BwamĮxample: A dey bwam! – I am good! or I am fine! MbaleĮxample: Mbale! A no doam. While some of the borrowed Duala words have maintained their meaning, a few have seen theirs changed. Same phrase in Duala, French and English The 9 words in their pidgin form This naturally made it incorporated in this Cameroonian creole. Mother-tongue to the indigenous population of Cameroon’s economic capital Douala, Duala saw itself adopted as the common language to many villages of the Cameroonian coastal line, making it the 1st most spoken dialect in the city and the 7th most spoken language in the country. Lyrics from Devil No Di Really Sleep by Pascal. ![]()
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