There are no files associated with this item. The emergence of Student Pidgin in Ghana is estimated to have started fairly recently: between 1965 and the early 1970s (Huber, 1999 Dako, 2002). The mongrel language of the world, and a patchwork tongue of trade, migration, empires and historical movement, Pidgin English, in its varying forms is a lingua franca - a simplified bridge language evolving through necessity, after extended contact between groups without a single common language. Student Pidgin – A Ghanaian Pidgin-Sound-Alike Youth Language This chapter investigates the structural, lexical and idiomatic peculiarities of SP, the identity assumed by its speakers, and it examines how it fits into the pattern of other urban youth languages in Africa. This paper provides an overview of the vocabulary of Ghanaian Student Pidgin (GSP), an English-lexified Pidgin spoken by students in high schools and universities in Ghana. Whereas Student Pidgin (SP) is grammatically close to Ghanaian Pidgin English (GhaPE) and can be classified as a WAP (West African Pidgin), it is sociolinguistically not a pidgin. Recent development, however, shows the active use of a. Pidgin English is increasingly gaining ground every day. Brought to Ghana by settlers from New World in early 16th century during colony years. The Nigerian Pidgin alone has about 40 million native speakers. Ghanaian Pidgin English (gpe-gpe) 3 (Wider communication). It is today the unmarked code of communication among secondary and tertiary male students and is gradually being adopted by female students in the same institutions. Pidgin English has been seen as a preserve of the uneducated and frowned upon by the schooled class. About 75 million people across Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea speak the West African Pidgin. Student Pidgin is a Ghanaian Pidgin-sound-alike Youth Language that so far as we can ascertain was started in the high-prestige boys’ secondary schools in Cape Coast in the late 1960s – early 1970s.
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