CreebhillsMar 10, 2025
Davido made me love Pidgin English, I’d love to speak it when I visit Nigeria – King Charles III: King Charles III, the British monarch, has openly shared his appreciation for Nigerian artist Davido, stating that his music has sparked his interest in Pidgin English. King Charles III has expressed a keen interest in speaking Pidgin during his next visit to Nigeria. In a recent episode of the Apple Music show, The… https://creebhills.com/2025/03/davido-made-me-love-pidgin-king-charles-iii?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Davido #PidginEnglish #KingCharlesIII #Nigeria #Music
Davido made me love Pidgin English, I'd love to speak it when I visit Nigeria – King Charles III

King Charles III, the British monarch, has openly shared his appreciation for Nigerian artist Davido, stating that his music has sparked his interest in

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ElisaMay 30, 2023

Scatole con la voce. Tante lingue, tante storie.

Quattro storie della tradizione europea [Il lupo e i sette capretti; Cappuccetto rosso; I tre porcellini; La gallinella rossa] raccontate in 20 lingue e dialetti grazie allo strumento narrativo "Boite a histoires" di D'Une Langue A L'Autre (DULALA)
Per le lingue africane: #pidginenglish, #arabomarocchino e #kirundi.

https://scatoleconlavoce.ilfioredellavitasavigliano.it/

#samalegge #scatoleconlavoce #raccontareinlinguamadre #storie #linguamadre #mammalingua #Dulala

Scatole con la voce – Il Fiore della Vita ODV

Scatole con la voce - Il Fiore della Vita ODV

KBNov 15, 2022
Was tipped off to the #BBC #pidginenglish site and am over the moon about it. https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
Domot - BBC News Pidgin

We dey give una latest tori on top politics, environment, business, sports, entertainment, health, fashion and all di oda things wey dey happen for West and Central Africa come add di rest of di world join. For better informate plus explanation of all di ogbonge tori wey pipo never hear about for inside West and Central Africa, BBC Pidgin dey serve am with video, audio, maps and oda graphics join.

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janPiteJansekeJun 4, 2019

The Germanic Languages
Ekkehard Konig, Johan van der Auwera | 2013

>>> The part on Pidgin English, especially Tok Pisin is very close to an analysis of Toki Pona

https://books.google.be/books?id=w-BcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA598&lpg=PA598&dq=%22Pidgin+English%22+%221500+words%22&source=bl&ots=X2EjWTYEhz&sig=ACfU3U17XRCXUnSZl2SKQidx25keXFS3Ng&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbgJ_w3tDiAhVQblAKHaebCjIQ6AEwBHoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Pidgin%20English%22%20%221500%20words%22&f=false

#TokPisin #PidginEnglish #nimi_pasila #level1500

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janPiteJansekeJun 4, 2019

Globish – a language of international business?
Mark Williams

[...]

Where I do support the need to protect languages and hinder English’s ever increasing global dominance, I feel the time spent learning Globish would be more beneficial and have a positive impact if spent learning a real language, one that comes embedded within a culture, rather than learning a language which can be classed to some extent as another variant of Pidgin English.

https://global-lingo.com/globish-a-language-of-international-business/

#Globish #PidginEnglish #Esperanto #level1500 #anno2012

Show threadjanPiteJansekeJun 4, 2019

[...]
Swiss psychologist Claude Piron claimed that the dominance of English is fiction. He argued that most of the people for whom it’s not a native language, use so-called Pidgin English which consists of no more than 1500 words. This is drop in the ocean of 615 thousand words contained in the Oxford Dictionary. This means that the international English is not richer than the constructed languages​​, aspiring to the role of the universal means of communication.
[...]

https://lingwistaijo.weebly.com/linguistic-lure.html

#PidginEnglish #ClaudePiron #level1500 #selo1500 #nimi_pasila #Inli_pasila

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