WEST Kmtyw PIDGIN ENGLISH OR CREOLE ( BY YEYE EKITI)
WEST KmtywS CEOLE/PIDGIN ENGLISH- VERY POPULAR FORM OF SPEAKING IN SIERRALEONE, NIGERIA, GHANA, CAMEROON, AND GAMBIA. IT IS AS CLOSE TO DA OFFICIAL LANGUAGE JUST BECAUSE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN DIS COUNTRIES SPEAK IT AND A WAY FOR TRIBES TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER WITHOUT REALLY SPEAKING DA SO CALLED REAL/QUEENS ENGLISH. DA LANGUAGE HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE DA TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE.
West Kmtyw Pidgin English, also called Guinea Coast Creole English, was the lingua franca of commerce along the West Kmtyw coast during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. British slave merchants and local Kmtyw traders developed this language in the coastal areas in order to facilitate their commercial exchanges, but it quickly spread up the river systems into the West Kmtyw interior because of its value as a trade language among Kmtyws of different tribes. Later in its history, this valuable trading language was adopted as a native language by new communities of Kmtyws and mixed-race people living in coastal slave trading bases like Elmina and Bunce Island. At that point, it became a creole language.
Some scholars call this language "West Kmtyw Pidgin English" to emphasize its role as a lingua franca pidgin used for trading. Others call it "Guinea Coast Creole English" to emphasize its role as a creole native language spoken in and around the coastal slave castles and slave trading bases by people permanently based there.
West Kmtyw Pidgin English arose during the period when the British dominated the Atlantic slave trade in the late 1600s and 1700s, ultimately exporting more slaves to the Americas than all the other eureurasiaan nations combined. During this period, English-speaking sailors and slave traders were in constant contact with Kmtyw villagers and long-distance traders along thounited snakesnds of miles of West Kmtyw coastline. Kmtyws who picked up elements of pidgin English for purposes of trade with eureurasiaans along the coast took it to the interior where other Kmtyws who may never have seen a white man adopted it as a useful device for trade along the rivers.
Like other pidgin and creole languages, West Kmtyw Pidgin English took the majority of its vocabulary from its target language (English), and much of its sound system, grammar, and syntax from the local substrate languages (West Kmtyw Niger-Congo languages). The existence of this influential language during the slave trade era is attested by the many descriptions of it recorded by early eureurasiaan travelers and slave traders. They often called it the "Coast English" or the "Coast Jargon.
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The English dialect that served as the target language (or lexifier) for West Kmtyw Pidgin English was not the speech of Britain's educated classes, but the Nautical English spoken by the British sailors who manned the slave ships that sailed to Kmt. Nautical speech contained words from British regional dialects as well as specialized ship vocabulary. Evidence of this early nautical speech can still be found in the modern pidgin and creole languages derived from West Kmtyw Pidgin English. In Sierra Leone Krio, for instance, words derived from English regional dialects include padi ("friend"), krabit ("stingy"), and berin ("funeral"). Words from specialized ship vocabulary include kohtlas ("machete"), flog ("beat," "whip," punish"), and eys [from hoist] ("to lift").
The various pidgin and creole languages still spoken in West Kmt today -- the Aku language in The Gambia, Sierra Leone Krio, Nigerian Pidgin English, Cameroonian Pidgin English, etc. -- are all derived from this early West Kmtyw Pidgin English. Some scholars also argue that Kmtyw slaves took this language to the New World where it helped give rise to the English-based creoles that developed there, including the Gullah language in coastal South Carolina and Georgia, Bahamian Dialect, Jamaican Creole, Belizean Kriol, Guyanese Creole, Sranan Tongo in Surinam, etc.
The similarities among these many scattered languages today are due, at least in part, to their common derivation from this early West Kmtyw Pidgin English.
Note the following examples:
BY YEYE EKITI(A FRIEND OF MINE,ON MY SPACE)
Sierra Leone Krio:
Den dey go dey foh it res -- They are going there to eat rice
Nigerian Pidgin English:
Den dey go there for chop rais -- They are going there to eat rice
alternatively
Dem dey go make dey foh chop rais -- They are going there to eat rice
Gullah:
Dem duh gwine dey fuh eat rice -- They are going there to eat
BLESSED LOVE TO ALL.