Oracy in Nigerian English-based Pidgin as a product of colonial encounter

Bassey Ekpenyong (General Studies Unit, Cross River University of Technology, Calabar, Nigeria)

Email: drbaekpenyong@yahoo.com

 

ABSTRACT:

This paper focuses attention on the Nigerian English-based pidgin as a language with its phonological system arising from its emergence as a contact language. The paper seeks to establish that the language justifiably exists more identifiably in the oral medium, than in writing due to dearth of a standard writing form for it. The conclusion is a call for the development of its orthography as a means of enhancing its development and wider application as a language of unity and commerce