Barikanchi Pidgin

Barikanchi
Native to Nigeria
Native speakers
None[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bxo
Glottolog bari1241[2]

Barikanchi (Barikanci), or Bastard Hausa,[3] is a pidgin of the Hausa language spoken in Nigeria,[4] principally in military barracks.[5] The language developed in the British Army barracks of northern Nigeria in the first part of the 20th century, and was used as a lingua franca among Nigerians of diverse language backgrounds.[6]

See also

References

  1. Barikanchi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Barikanchi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Bede Osaji (1979). Language survey in Nigeria. Centre international de recherche sur le bilinguisme. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  4. Cristiana Fiamingo (2000). L'Africa subsahariana: ambiente, storia, strutture di potere, lingue, popoli, religioni, cronologia, glossario. Edizioni Pendragon. pp. 77–. ISBN 978-88-8342-034-4. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  5. Barbara F. Grimes; Joseph Evans Grimes; Summer Institute of Linguistics (1 November 2000). Ethnologue. SIL International. ISBN 978-1-55671-103-9. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  6. Pidginization and Creolization of Languages. CUP Archive. pp. 518–. GGKEY:07X8JT2JN9L. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
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