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Nigerian Pidgin is an English-based pidgin and creole language spoken as a ''lingua franca'' across Nigeria. The language is commonly referred to as "''Pidgin''" or "''Brokin''". It is distinguished from other creole languages since most speakers are not true native speakers, although many children do learn it at an early age. It can be spoken as a pidgin, a creole, or a decreolised acrolect by different speakers, who may switch between these forms depending on the social setting.〔Faraclas, Nicholas C., ''Nigerian Pidgin'', Descriptive Grammar, 1996, Introduction.〕 Variations of Pidgin are also spoken across West Africa, in countries such as Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana and Cameroon. Pidgin English, despite its common use throughout the country, has no official status. ==Variations== Each of the 250 or more ethnic groups in Nigeria can converse in this language, though they usually have their own additional words. For example, the Yorùbás use the words ''Ṣe'' and ''Abi'' when speaking Pidgin. These are often used at the start or end of an intonated sentence or question. For example, "You are coming, right?" becomes ''Ṣe you dey come?'' or ''You dey come abi?'' As another example, the Igbos added the word ''Nna'' also used at the beginning of some sentences to show camaraderie. For example, ''Man, that test was very hard'' becomes ''Nna, that test hard no be small''. Nigerian Pidgin also varies from place to place. Dialects of Nigerian Pidgin may include the Warri, Sapele, Benin, Port-Harcourt, Lagos especially in Ajegunle, Onitsha varieties. Nigerian Pidgin is most widely spoken in the oil rich Niger-Delta where most of its population speak it as their first language.〔Herbert Igboanusi: Empowering Nigerian Pidgin: a challenge for status planning?. World Englishes, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 68–82, 2008.〕 But other people speak pidgin differently and in their own ways all over Nigeria. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nigerian Pidgin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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