![]() If you’d rather just stay on this page and learn from what my small brain has gathered, here’s what I’ve been able to pool together about Pidgin and its history. I don’t have that off hand, but I did find this site written by one of her professors. It’s spoken but it has no grammatical structure, yet people still can understand each other easily and seem to know the structure with out realizing it.Īfter writing this, I also realized one of my friends was writing a thesis on Pidgin, and she has a 26 page report on it. I’ve been told that on average about 1/10 girls speaks pidgin, and I’ve noticed my experience on campus that most girls don’t even understand it, either. It’s a language with no books or written rules. During my time coaching the UG basketball team, I noticed the guys spoke pidgin exclusively, except when they were talking to an Obroni. On campus, most of the guys speak Pidgin. Pidgin took the highest priority, and Twi, Ewe, Ga, English, etc. When I learned about Pidgin, I became so fascinated with the language that it became the language that I wanted to learn. ![]() Pidgin usually develops in high school, or SS as Ghanaians call it, and is spoken mostly among males.ĭuring my first few weeks in Ghana, I did my best to learn Twi so I could talk to people and integrate with Ghanaian culture as much as possible. ![]() Pronounced like the bird, Pidgin (known as West African Pidgin) is a vernacular of broken English combined with certain vocabulary of the local language. ![]() In fact, a language spoken more commonly between males on campus is called Pidgin. So, I’ve decided to let my mind pour out some more thoughts on my experience while it’s still fresh!Īside from the tribal and local languages prevalent in Ghana, English isn’t the only other spoken dialect. I may be back in the states, but my heart and mind are still in Ghana. ![]()
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