“But with that engagement with our audiences, we will get inputs from them or have a robust debate on what’s the best way to write this word or that word, you know, we will encourage all of that so we could engage one another in agreeing on what’s the standardized way of writing something. They share their experiences with BBC Pidgin, including the various.
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“We have a network of reporters from Ghana, Nigeria, and others so we could reflect those variations,” she said. BN TV This is a story of two intersex Nigerians, James Johnson and Mystique Evolving, who were born with male and female organs. Labaran said the variants of Pidgin across the region would serve as an opportunity to encourage a lot of engagement from the BBC’s audience. And as one moves from southern to northern Nigeria as well as across the sub-region, variants of the language are common among the speakers. There is no official figure as to the precise number of Pidgin speakers in Nigeria but estimates say as a second language, it is spoken by about half of the population – up to 75 million people. BBC News Pidgin is an online news service in West African Pidgin English that was launched by BBC World Service in 2017. Over time, the need to bridge the gap between English and our various local dialects have been on the rise. Here’s why The fluidity and expressive nature of the pidgin language give it a level of uniqueness among other spoken languages in West and Central African communities. It gradually spread across other parts of West African colonies as a useful trade language, particularly among local ethnic groups who spoke different languages. The BBC pidgin service is a welcome development. The West African Pidgin English, also known as the Guinea Coast Creole English or Broken English, originated during the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th and 18th centuries where it served as a language of communication between the British slave merchants and local African traders. By the time you to Ghana, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, you are speaking to millions and millions across this region.” It is spoken by 75 million people in Nigeria alone. There’s a nice little video featuring the presenters talking about how excited they are (We don land gidigba We’ve finally arrived) and a selection of pleased tweets (Una welcome BBCAfrica, noting better pass dan say person hear tory for him own language. “Pidgin is a real language of opportunity across the region, spoken by millions across the West and Central African region. Pidgin is the common thread in the region, BBC editor Bilkisu Labaran said. “We are really excited that this is the first fully digital service that the BBC is offering in Africa and it is a really exciting opportunity for us,” In an interview with newsmen BBC Nigeria’s Editorial Lead said BBC the first African digital service that aims to provide news, current affairs and analysis of Nigeria, West and Central Africa, as part of the biggest expansion of its World Service since the 1940s has launched its BBC Pidgin.
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