A Cameroonian here watching from Cape Town,South Africa. An example of Cameroon Pidgin being mixed with French is where we could say something like "Grandfrere I salute oo". That is "Big brother, I greet you/greetings". Or another example "That my paddyman do go Etas" which is "That my friend has traveled to the US" with "etas" being French for "the States"
MustBe True pidgins are simplified language systems made from an amalgamation of two languages that usually adopts the grammatical and cultural structure of just one of its components. A Creole is a language system that has evolved from a pidgin language to become its own culturally diverse and vibrant system capable of its own independent linguistic change. Usually the major differences come with usage- the more people who speak it, the more likely it will undergo its own cultural movement and adapt things like slang and invention (where people can make up words and they catch on or are semantically intelligible to other speakers). Creoles usually aren't intelligible by the speakers of the languages it came from- for instance, it's hard to understand Haitian Creole is not mutually intelligible with Niger-Congo languages or French-- that's what makes it a creole. However, if you were to use a pidgin, something that maybe only consists of 700 words like Chinese Pidgin English, both Chinese and English speakers could understand a fair chunk of what was being said. A creole can be your mother tongue, but pidgins are second languages commonly to bridge gaps in commercial trade, like Tok Pisin.
@King Kai You do realize that Sierra Leone Krio has Yoruba words mixed in, because most Krios have some Yoruba Ancestry. So that's where they got it from. I've listened to Cameroon and its Salone Krio. Words like una already existed Krio. In those early colonial days. Sierra Leoneans were a lot more influential then you guys. We pretty much traveled and settled all over West Africa.
@@uyiegharevba5160 Thanks for the update. Beautiful language and People. I'll never be tired of listening to Nigerians talking Pigin. I love Nollywood.
But that's what they were. Why are trying to censor history? If we start using 'oppressors', in another 50 years people will start getting offended at the word.
And they are proud of this ? In 10 to 30 years from now these people will become like their cousins in the Caribbean without an original language . I'm lucky to be a congolese proudly having lingala, kiswahili etc as authentic african languages sung in music . In congo we don't have such rubbish things as pidgin or creol
@@twister80 😁😁😁😁 Lingala and swahili blah blah a blend of other languages. Are those languages African or Europeans?? If you were cultivated enough you should asked yourself did kiswahili ans lingala develop form African languages or European ones . Your so called pidgin is English based with some african words is this something to compare to lingala and kiswahili
@@imhotep1613 Pidgins have an African structure and European vocabulary....from the moment that a pidgin becomes the mother tongue of the people, it is called Creole like in Haiti for example which is a French based Creole....
So why weren't you Euros able to handle African Languages then. Since we are so stupid, our Languages should be easy to pick up. We took your Languages and advanced them, saved them from extinction(French, Portugues). This is too easy😂
OK einstein.. Just like the French and Portuguese were not smart enough to handle Latin and therefore created French and Portuguese... Man when u don't know please stay quiet
A Cameroonian here watching from Cape Town,South Africa. An example of Cameroon Pidgin being mixed with French is where we could say something like "Grandfrere I salute oo". That is "Big brother, I greet you/greetings". Or another example "That my paddyman do go Etas" which is "That my friend has traveled to the US" with "etas" being French for "the States"
Krio in sierra Leone is the best pidgin ever
Tell them for. We. Me bra
Krio in Sierra Leone is not a pidgin. Duya
Yes I love Sierra Leone krio
Don't use the word "masters" it sounds inappropriate
What word do you propose to replace it?
Why do you want us to censor the past/history ?
@@czas4 Call them colonizers/occupiers. That doesn't censor history.
@@czas4
Colonizers, maybe.
But it was true though and she is an west African, she gets it
What about Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Liberia.
They always forget Sierra Leone.
@King Kai We don't call it pidgin, its called Krio in Sierra Leone.
@@deeeeeeezzzzaaaa the people that brought pidgin to Equatorial Guinea are called krio too and our pidgin is more close to the one of Sierra Leone
@@akindele13 you. Can. Say that again me bra
Cameroon on the map pidgin English,francanglaise
Ndonue Takwi in Cameroon the pidgin (boko tok) is actually a creole not a pidgin.
African Child Better ask if u don't know... Cameroon has two slangs: pidgin and camfranglais. There's no creole in kamer
@@nzambivodun2531 define pidgin and define creole what makes a language a pidgin and what makes one a creole?
@@nzambivodun2531 never said anything about camfranglais
So Interesting and lovely
Indeed it is. Am from Freetown Sierra Leone and l speak krio
Languages of their 'colonizers' would have been more proper, not languages of their masters.
Colonial oppressors not masters. 🙄
Pidgin and Creole aren't the same
thegigadykid1 well, please explain
Exactly Nigerians, Ghanaians speak Pidgin. Sierra Leoneans and Cameroonians speak Creole.
MustBe True pidgins are simplified language systems made from an amalgamation of two languages that usually adopts the grammatical and cultural structure of just one of its components. A Creole is a language system that has evolved from a pidgin language to become its own culturally diverse and vibrant system capable of its own independent linguistic change. Usually the major differences come with usage- the more people who speak it, the more likely it will undergo its own cultural movement and adapt things like slang and invention (where people can make up words and they catch on or are semantically intelligible to other speakers). Creoles usually aren't intelligible by the speakers of the languages it came from- for instance, it's hard to understand Haitian Creole is not mutually intelligible with Niger-Congo languages or French-- that's what makes it a creole. However, if you were to use a pidgin, something that maybe only consists of 700 words like Chinese Pidgin English, both Chinese and English speakers could understand a fair chunk of what was being said. A creole can be your mother tongue, but pidgins are second languages commonly to bridge gaps in commercial trade, like Tok Pisin.
But Nigerian pidgin is a creole
@King Kai You do realize that Sierra Leone Krio has Yoruba words mixed in, because most Krios have some Yoruba Ancestry. So that's where they got it from. I've listened to Cameroon and its Salone Krio. Words like una already existed Krio. In those early colonial days. Sierra Leoneans were a lot more influential then you guys. We pretty much traveled and settled all over West Africa.
Pidgin in Solomon islands, is sound similar to English..
Interesting. In Jamaica the word "Pidgin" is used to describe the bird Pigeon.
Pidgin english in africa is the jamaican equivalent of patois....
@@uyiegharevba5160
Thanks for the update. Beautiful language and People. I'll never be tired of listening to Nigerians talking Pigin. I love Nollywood.
@@uyiegharevba5160
A sirius ting dat.
@King Kai
Oh; do they? Thanks for the update.
In England too
Oh wow so Cameroon 🇨🇲speak Krio
Stop calling them masters, they were oppressors. Wow, people!
I think oppressor is inferred when you say 'master'
But that's what they were. Why are trying to censor history?
If we start using 'oppressors', in another 50 years people will start getting offended at the word.
They educated you. Or at least they tried. Seeing as how you guys still speak underdeveloped languages like "pidgin", it looks like they failed.
@@ダニエル-x5d 😂😂I love how confident you are while being foolish. I wish you good luck in your sad life ❤️
@@ダニエル-x5d Don't be ignorant. Stop trolling.
goodjob
Give a listen to Drew and Dy singing " Light Belong You " The Lords Prayer in Pidgin English !
cameroon have the best pidgin of africa
Krio. Is. The. Language of Sierra Leone
Yes
And they are proud of this ? In 10 to 30 years from now these people will become like their cousins in the Caribbean without an original language . I'm lucky to be a congolese proudly having lingala, kiswahili etc as authentic african languages sung in music . In congo we don't have such rubbish things as pidgin or creol
If only u were cultivated enough to know that kingala and kishwahili themselves are also a blend of other languages... Its jut the natural process..
@@twister80 😁😁😁😁 Lingala and swahili blah blah a blend of other languages. Are those languages African or Europeans?? If you were cultivated enough you should asked yourself did kiswahili ans lingala develop form African languages or European ones .
Your so called pidgin is English based with some african words is this something to compare to lingala and kiswahili
N'importe quoi, vous mélange le lingala avec le français. Arretez de juger les gens.
@@imhotep1613
Pidgins have an African structure and European vocabulary....from the moment that a pidgin becomes the mother tongue of the people, it is called Creole like in Haiti for example which is a French based Creole....
Cameroon is 2 NOT 1
No proficiency in the english language,forces people to speak in pidgin
That's how French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese were born... Broken Latin..
XD
Basically they're not smart enough to handle english, so they created english lite with much more simple and basic words.
Ok Einstein
Way to put in harshly
So why weren't you Euros able to handle African Languages then. Since we are so stupid, our Languages should be easy to pick up. We took your Languages and advanced them, saved them from extinction(French, Portugues).
This is too easy😂
OK einstein.. Just like the French and Portuguese were not smart enough to handle Latin and therefore created French and Portuguese... Man when u don't know please stay quiet
@@twister80 well, that is true