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Domot - BBC News Pidgin

We dey give una latest tori on top politics, environment, business, sports, entertainment, health, fashion and all di oda things wey dey happen for West and Central Africa come add di rest of di world join. For better informate plus explanation of all di ogbonge tori wey pipo never hear about...
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Someone typing as they speak in the local dialect instead of English? I’m on a miners Facebook page, some guys post in a deep Yorkshire? accent, it can awkward answering some of them as I’m guessing as to what they mean.
 
For some reason Google news occasionally recommends BBC articles in Pidgin which was the first time I'd come across it. In the sci-fi series the Expanse, the Belter faction have their own language and I wonder if it was based on Pidgin English as much of it seems quite similar.
 
If you read it as written it sounds very similar to the Jamaican / rasterfarian dialect interesting post
 
I na also thinking dat it sounded laik dat jamacian or rasterfarian style for speaking, but wen looking it up it appears be west africa. Here's a link i found for a little plenti informate.

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Pidgin - West African lingua franca

As the BBC launches a service in Pidgin to target West African audiences, we look at what the language entails.
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EDIT: Interestingly, there appears to be various forms of it when looking at the auto translators, here's the same sentence but with a Nigerian influence (apparently):

I dey tink say e sound like Jamacian or rastafarian style of talking, but when I check am, e dey look like e related to West Africa. Here, I see one link wey I find for person wey want know small information.
 
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