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 Uwagbale Edward-ekpu, Quartz, 23 July 2021 The creoles emerged from a first-contact language or pidgin resulting from the contact between the Portuguese colonizers and the slaves from the kingdom of Benin in Sao Tome.
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. A macron (called a kahak in Hawaiian) is used to indicate a long vowel. There are only 12 letters total in the Hawaiian alphabet, so if you can speak English you already know how to pronounce half of the Hawaiian letters. New York Times, 30 June 2022 ClayRocksU excels at something similar, fusing Igbo language and local pidgin folk elements with punk rock. Draw out vowels with a macron ( ¯ ) over them. The Hawaiian alphabet has a total of 7 consonants, 6 of which are always pronounced exactly the same as they are in English.
Click on a word below to learn its definition and proper usage.Recent Examples on the Web 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. To see past articles about Hawaiian language and culture, click on the Hawaiiana category in the left side bar. The following are words or phrases in Hawaiian or Hawaiian Pidgin used in The Niuhi Shark Saga. ‘Ōlelo is a Hawaiian word meaning language, speech, word, etc.
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