Pidgin, Nigerian
Conjugate VerbsFacts
- Language: Pidgin, Nigerian
- Alternate names: Broken English, Brokin, Brokun, Naija, Naijá, Nigerian Creole English, Nigerian Pidgin English
- Language code: pcm
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, North Sea Germanic, Anglo-Frisian, Anglic, Later Anglic, Middle-Modern English, Macro-English, Guinea Coast Creole English, West African Creole English, Nigeria-Cameroon Creole English
- Creole language
- Number of speakers: 120,000,000 including L1 and L2 speakers.
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Nigerian Pidgin is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is sometimes referred to as "Pijin" or Broken. It can be spoken as a pidgin, a creole, slang or a decreolised acrolect by different speakers, who may switch between these forms depending on the social setting. A common orthography has been developed for Pidgin which has been gaining significant popularity in giving the language a harmonized writing system.
The Pidgin, Nigerian Verb
All verbs are regular and don't inflect, except these three:Time Adverbs for Tense
Verbs don't inflect in aspect, mood, tense, or person. Instead adverbs are used to denote tense, aspect, and mood. The following table shows adverbs applied to form tenses:| Tense | Adverb | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Neutral aspect, past | - | chop |
| Neutral aspect, future | go | go chop |
| Imperfective aspect, present | de | de chop |
| Imperfective aspect, past | de | de chop |
| Imperfective aspect, future | go de | go de chop |
| Perfective aspect, inchoative, present | don de | don de chop |
| Perfective aspect, inchoative, past | don de | don de chop |
| Perfective aspect, inchoative, future | go don de | go don de chop |
| Perfective aspect, terminative, present | don | don chop |
| Perfective aspect, terminative, past | don | don chop |
| Perfective aspect, terminative, future | go don | go don chop |