Example sentences for: pidgins

How can you use “pidgins” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Here, too, there are subtle differences from one country to another both in the spoken word and in the written word, from the phonetic Krio of Sierra Leone and Liberia to the more straightforward pidgins of Nigeria and Cameroon.

  • Likewise when English-based pidgins and creoles are written down, the phonetic transcriptions use a similar system of modified spellings to indicate pronunciation.

  • Most of the conventions established for representing nonstandard forms of English are applied to English-based pidgins and creoles when used in literature.


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