#Pidgin english in nigeria code
A language that has no esteem within its major constituency is most unlikely to be awarded such esteem simply because it has been pronounced a national language. Nigerian English adaptation, Pidgin, has evolved over the years through multi-language code switch- ing, code mixing and linguistic adaptation. The video itself is a good example of how pidgin languages can have a majority of lexical features from one language, but cannot be directly translated due to the uniqueness of the created pidgin. However, on social grounds, it may, at the moment, not be able to effectively fulfil this role. This resulted in a form of Nigerian Pidgin, which probably is the predecessor of present-day Nigerian English Pidgin, which is mainly used for inter-ethnic. This video shows speakers of Nigerian Pidgin English struggling to translate the phrase This Ogbono soup too draw into proper English.
The paper concludes with the observation that on purely linguistic sgrounds, there is no reason why Nigerian Pidgin cannot function as a national language. The fact that attitudes towards Nigerian Pidgin are completely negative is pinpointed as the most powerful argument against its candidacy as national language.
Arguments against its candidature include its stigmatization its lack of a cultural base queries over its bona fide indigenous status its being a threat to the mastery and use of "standard" English, especially in the educational domain, and its low language development status. Potent buttressing arguments include its widespread use at the grassroots level its apparent cultural neutrality and the ease in acquiring it. Nigerian Pidgin and Nigerian English by choosing an approach opposite to Deubers. This paper examines arguments for and against the candidature of Nigerian Pidgin as an official language. This paper takes a new look at the relationship between.
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