The likes of "Kuku"" Mama" "Yeye" "Baba" "Abi" "Shey" "Oya" "ni" and more are all Yoruba words. Well, you didn't mention their origins like you promised. To further buttress my point, that is why Igbos laugh at yoruba name like AdeYEYE.Ģ8 Likes 1 Share Re: 5 Most Common Nigerian Pidgin English Words and their Origin by Kelvin0( m): 1:32pm On Apr 19, 2016 Yeye: this is Igbo word used to show stupidity, it is used as eyiye eg Mama it has Igbo origin from the word mara as in 'mmiri mara mu' to englised the Igbo word, folks start saying rain mama me. Re: 5 Most Common Nigerian Pidgin English Words and their Origin by Nobody: 1:18pm On Apr 19, 2016 Lalasticlala, ishilove make una kuku move this yeye thread to the appropriate section and then to fp na Abi hunger dey Mama una by this time of the day wey 1 don knack already. Yeye:, all this yeye children of nowadays wey no get respect for their elders go come jump enter this thread now come dey bash me Una(ina) abeg if una reach class make ina keep sit for me. Naijaboiy abeg wetin dey Knack for your time.Ģ. Knack : this one, lol, d bad guys are already thinking spoil "Hungerbad don knack the babe tire" ewooo dem don knack my Pikin jazz. Mama : hmm, u are probably wondering what mama is doing inside this list, when we all know it means mother, but wait! hunger dey Mama me o, lol. Mama Tina: (with tears rushing down her eyes) make u KUKU kill me, kill me o.Ĥ. Husband: lands her(mama Tina) a very serious slap Mama Tina: I know go leave am, where Tina school fees and money for food, useless man. Who was the first person that used it, how did the first recipient of the word decipher the meaning, maybe the language was aided with talking fingers then, who knows. "Kuku" : how this word found itself in our day to day pidgin English remains a wonder. However there are some complicated forms of pidgin whose origin one can never traced, how they became very popular among our traditional pidgin is what i still find difficult to understand.īelow are five most used pidgin words in naija which cannot be said to have originated from any language whatsoever.ĥ.
To do it?" "Sabi" means "to know" or "to know "Walk" pidgin form "Waka" (Origin:English)Īs i dey " waka" my own, na so i jam Talleasty1 for road. Most people call it brokin English.īy implications the pidgin English we use today in our day to day verbal communication must have been coined out from two or more languages, this statement may be true to some extent. Wikipedia defines Nigerian (naija) pidgin as an English-based pidgin and creole( dialect formed from two languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language. like most languages, it has really evolved with new words been added at regular intervals. Was the language used in their business transaction.Īfter that era, the language stayed on as a means of communication amongst the people because of the many different African languages In Nigeria, for example there are over five hundred different languages.
"Pidgin" English or brokin English (as it is called) originated during the slave trade era as a means of communication between the Europeans and the Africans, according to a novel by Chinua Achebe "the Europeans seemed to speak through their noses", this made communication with the locals an herculean task, thus the need to integrate the English language with their local diet for better understanding this marked the beginning of the pidgin English.
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