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The language quickly spread up the river systems into the West African interior because of its value as a trade language among Africans of different tribes.

Later, as British merchants arrived to engage in the slave trade, they developed this language in combination with local African slave traders in order to facilitate their commercial exchanges. Portuguese merchants were the first Europeans to trade in West Africa beginning in the 15th century, and West African Pidgin English contains numerous words of Portuguese origin such as "sabi" (to know), a derivation of the Portuguese "saber". West African Pidgin English arose during the period of the transatlantic slave trade as a language of commerce between British and African slave traders.

These include Sierra Leone Krio, Nigerian Pidgin, Ghanaian Pidgin English, Cameroonian Pidgin English, Liberian Pidgin English, the Aku dialect of Krio, and Pichinglis. īecause it is primarily a spoken language, there is no standardized written form, and many local varieties exist.

As of 2017, about 75 million people in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana and Equatorial Guinea used the language. It originated as a language of commerce between British and African slave traders during the period of the transatlantic slave trade. I know it’s a lingua Franca, but is it common to see people prefer to speak it over their native language?ĭo modern Nigerians view NPE as the de facto official language or do y’all see it becoming its own language in the future?ĭo Nigerians see NPE bringing ethnic groups together? Or is it’s impact on society mostly minimal.West African Pidgin English, also known as Guinea Coast Creole English, is a West African pidgin language lexified by English and local African languages. Given the fact that pidgin is so widespread, is it sort of the de facto language of Nigeria?ĭo people commonly speak it in the diaspora? I recently learned that it was super common for people of different ethnic groups to speak in pidgin, and I was even more surprised to see that it was the native language of > 60 million people in Nigeria. Hello, I’m an African (🇪🇷) from the US and I was curious about NPE.