a creole language featuring its unique blend of African tongues and pidgin English.
He's at ease speaking pidgin with the factory workers and guys on the docks.
Prof Kirkpatrick also provides this sample of Nigerian pidgin English: "Monkey DE work, baboon dey chop" (Monkeys work, baboons eat).
Againye tried to be a good nurse, attentive but not cloying, fetching me a stool to use while I bathed from a bucket and petting my head as I napped, saying, “Pain you well well” in soothing pidgin.
Today most young Indians speak only English or are bilingual in English and Afrikaans, though they may continue to chat at home in a kind of pidgin English larded with Indian and Zulu.
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