Pidgin languages naturally develop between people who want or need to communicate but who do not share a common language. It’s basic knowledge for any Hawaiian language speaker, and along with this goes the list of Hawaiian words I have made for you in A Glossary of Hawaiian Words in Hawaiian Pidgin English. Send us feedback about these examples.The following is a very brief history of how we came to have “Hawaiian Pidgin English” here in Hawaiʻi. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'pidgin.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Uwagbale Edward-ekpu, Quartz, 23 July 2021 See More 2021 This relationship between the Portuguese and Edo people in the region shaped the pidgin spoken in the Niger Delta region today and also-what may be a surprise to many-Portuguese creole. Omar Mamoon, Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021 Japanese immigrants who worked in pineapple fields and on sugarcane plantations introduced their ice-cold kakigori to Hawaii in the late 1800s, where it became known as shave ice in Hawaiian pidgin. 2022 Ed Sheeran takes over the second verse with lyrics peppered with upbeat pidgin and interlaced with words from Yoruba which forms the lyrics of the original song.

Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022 But Amazon expects this person to be well connected with the Nigerian film industry, already boasting relationships with top creators, fluency in Nigerian pidgin and one or more indigenous languages. are also attempting to challenge the negative stereotypes attached to rock music in this part of the world. Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022 With the song - a feel-good tune sung in Nigerian pidgin and blending punk rock, Afrobeats, and folk - Okorocha and Co. New York Times, 30 June 2022 ClayRocksU excels at something similar, fusing Igbo language and local pidgin folk elements with punk rock. 2020 The language is a high-modernist juxtaposition of street urchin pidgin, Yiddish English and finely observed free indirect discourse - New York’s voice is plural.

Recent Examples on the Web Ijaw, pidgin and Yoruba in addition to English.

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