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Slave Trade Language from Cameroon

Here is the book of Jude (Bible), read in West African Pidgin English.
It is the English language as used in those days of slave trade in West Africa.

http://www.hugedrive.com/published/WG/s ... =-17680a92

This Pidgin is spoken nowadays in Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia.

Please, enjoy it and comment

Matthias.

Perhaps you'd enjoy the book "One Big Puzzle" - if the Pidgin is represented well.

http://www.amazon.com/One-Big-Damn-Puzz ... =1-1-fkmr1

Canto wrote:Perhaps you'd enjoy the book "One Big Puzzle" - if the Pidgin is represented well.

http://www.amazon.com/One-Big-Damn-Puzz ... =1-1-fkmr1

In that Pidgin, "To be or not to be, that is the question" translates to "Is be or is be not, is be one big damn puzzler".

In West African Pidgin, it is "For be or for no be, na de question dat".


Matthias.

Watin be dis? Make a ask u. How u con dey no all dis ting? If u won len to talk like dem waffi boys, ask me en a go tel u.

kingliveson wrote:Watin be dis? Make a ask u. How u con dey no all dis ting? If u won len to talk like dem waffi boys, ask me en a go tel u.

Wow ! Nothing to rectify. That is Pidgin with a nigerian flavour. We understand it in Cameroon too.

Matthias.

Matthias Gemuh wrote:

kingliveson wrote:Watin be dis? Make a ask u. How u con dey no all dis ting? If u won len to talk like dem waffi boys, ask me en a go tel u.

Wow ! Nothing to rectify. That is Pidgin with a nigerian flavour. We understand it in Cameroon too.

Matthias.

I be no no se una be my broda.

Oh by the way, I learned it from watching National Geographic Channel.

kingliveson wrote:
I be no no se una be my broda.

Oh by the way, I learned it from watching National Geographic Channel.

Na de book of Philemon dis for Bible.
Dem di read am for Cameroon pidgin.

http://www.hugedrive.com/published/WG/s ... =-6b55c531

Matthias.

P.S.: Da National Geographic trong.