Nigerian pidgin, as we all know is used to make our conversing with each other both easier and faster. It's widely used in the country so this thread would show some facts about Nigerian pidgin.
1. Each of the 250 or more ethnic groups in Nigeria can converse in this language.
2. if it wasn't for pidgin, most Nigerians can't converse with each other. Let's say an illiterate Yoruba man is with an illiterate Igbo man. Both of them can't understand the other's language neither have they learned English. What's remaining? Pidgin.
3. Nigerian Pidgin also varies from place to place. Dialects of Nigerian Pidgin may include the Warri, Sapele, Benin, Port-Harcourt, Lagos especially in Ajegunle.
4. Nigerian Pidgin is most widely spoken in the oil rich Niger-Delta where most of its population speak it as their first language. This is especially at warri whereby most waferians (young) can't speak their mother tongue, aren't fluent in English.
5. Nigerian pidgin, when studied, have shown it's from either/both Spanish and Portuguese origin. Like the word sabi is from Portuguese (saber) meaning to know or know how to. The work pikin is from Spanish (pikaninny) meaning small.
6. Nigerian pidgin first started when the whites came to make trade with us. That's how the languages got mixed up for easier conversation.
7. This language is mostly used in informal conversations. You'll be viewed like an illiterate if you use it at public places like banks whereby someone is conversing with you using English
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