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- West_African_Pidgin_English abstract "West African Pidgin English, also called Guinea Coast Creole English, was the lingua franca, or language of commerce, spoken along the West African coast during the period of the Atlantic slave trade. British slave merchants and local African traders developed this language in the coastal areas in order to facilitate their commercial exchanges, but it quickly spread up the river systems into the West African interior because of its value as a trade language among Africans of different tribes. Later in its history, this useful trading language was adopted as a native language by new communities of Africans and mixed-race people living in coastal slave trading bases such as James Island, Bunce Island, Elmina Castle, Cape Coast Castle and Anomabu. At that point, it became a creole language. Some scholars call this language \"West African Pidgin English\" to emphasize its role as a lingua franca pidgin used for trading. Others call it \"Guinea Coast Creole English\" to emphasize its role as a creole native language spoken in and around the coastal slave castles and slave trading centers by people permanently based there.West African Pidgin English arose during the period when the British dominated the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th and 18th centuries, ultimately exporting more slaves to the Americas than all the other European nations combined. During this period, English-speaking sailors and slave traders were in constant contact with African villagers and long-distance traders along thousands of miles of West African coastline. Africans who picked up elements of pidgin English for purposes of trade with Europeans along the coast probably took the language up the river systems along the trade routes into the interior where other Africans who may never have seen a white man adopted it as a useful device for trade along the rivers.The existence of this influential language during the slave trade era is attested by the many descriptions of it recorded by early European travelers and slave traders. They called it the \"Coast English\" or the \"Coast Jargon.\"A British slave trader in Sierra Leone, named John Matthews, mentioned pidgin English in a letter he later published in a book titled A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone on the Coast of Africa. Matthews refers to West African Pidgin English as a \"jargon,\" and he warns Europeans coming to Africa that they will fail to understand the Africans unless they recognize that there are significant differences between English and the coastal pidgin:“Those who visit Africa in a cursory manner...are very liable to be mistaken in the meaning of the natives from want of knowledge in their language, or in the jargon of such of them as reside upon the sea-coast and speak a little English; the European affixing the same ideas to the words spoken by the African, as if they were pronounced by one of his own nation. [This] is a specimen of the conversation which generally passes...:Well, my friend, you got trade today; you got plenty of slaves?No, we no got trade yet; by and by trade come. You can’t go.What you go for catch people, you go for make war?Yes, my brother… gone for catch people; or they gone for make war.\"↑".
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageExternalLink West-African-Pidgin-English-Wape.htm.
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- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Anomabu.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_slave_trade.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Bahamian_English.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Belizean_Creole.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Bunce_Island.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Cameroonian_Pidgin_English.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Coast_Castle.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Category:English-based_pidgins_and_creoles.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Category:West_African_culture.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Creole_language.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Elmina_Castle.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Georgia_(U.S._state).
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Ghanaian_Pidgin_English.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Gullah_language.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Guyanese_Creole.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Jamaica.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Jamaican_Maroon_spirit-possession_language.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Jamaican_Maroons.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Jamaican_Patois.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Krio_language.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Kunta_Kinteh_Island.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Lingua_franca.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Nigerian_Pidgin.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Niger–Congo_languages.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Pichinglis.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Pidgin.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Sacred_language.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink South_Carolina.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Spirit_possession.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Sranan_Tongo.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Suriname.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink Syntax.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLink The_Gambia.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "Guinea Coast Creole English".
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "Pidgin English".
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "Pidgin".
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "West African Pidgin English".
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "pidgin English".
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refimprove.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- West_African_Pidgin_English subject Category:English-based_pidgins_and_creoles.
- West_African_Pidgin_English subject Category:West_African_culture.
- West_African_Pidgin_English hypernym Franca.
- West_African_Pidgin_English type Language.
- West_African_Pidgin_English comment "West African Pidgin English, also called Guinea Coast Creole English, was the lingua franca, or language of commerce, spoken along the West African coast during the period of the Atlantic slave trade. British slave merchants and local African traders developed this language in the coastal areas in order to facilitate their commercial exchanges, but it quickly spread up the river systems into the West African interior because of its value as a trade language among Africans of different tribes.".
- West_African_Pidgin_English label "West African Pidgin English".
- West_African_Pidgin_English sameAs Q7984262.
- West_African_Pidgin_English sameAs m.0bynbg.
- West_African_Pidgin_English sameAs Q7984262.
- West_African_Pidgin_English wasDerivedFrom West_African_Pidgin_English?oldid=690823164.
- West_African_Pidgin_English isPrimaryTopicOf West_African_Pidgin_English.