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The Nigerian pidgin is not left out in the world of romance. However, as you travel across West Africa, the style of Pidgin spoken becomes more familiar, even though it differs based on the local language elements infused into it. Variations of Pidgin English exist all over the world and these variations come with its own library of everyday words. It also represents the means through which many have tried to survive, cope and live amongst themselves over the years and in Africa’s most populous nation. There is a certain aura the Nigerian pidgin creates it forms a certain bond and intimacy among its speakers. This is because it shows that the foreigner has spent some time here or has taken time out to integrate him or herself into the Nigerian culture. If you hear a foreigner speak the Nigerian pidgin, Nigerians get instantly lit up. The Nigerian pidgin is such that it instantly sparks up conversations. In a bid to bridge the communication gap caused by these diverse languages, the Nigerian Pidgin was developed to aid communication among people from different parts of the country, as well as between Nigerians and Europeans. Nigeria is a country with well over 250 local languages and was colonized by Britain. While the English language is referred to as the official language in Nigeria, Pidgin is regarded as the real lingua franca. The barrier of entry for future NLP works on West African Pidgin English.The Nigerian Pidgin is an English-based creole language, that is a mother tongue formed from the contact of a European language which is in this case, the English language and an African language. To English, and 5.18 from English to Pidgin. Model between Pidgin and English which achieves BLEU scores of 7.93 from Pidgin Thirdly, the training of an Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Will be helpful in the performance of various downstream tasks between EnglishĪnd Pidgin. Secondly, the training of the firstĮver cross-lingual embedding between Pidgin and English. Sentences, which is the largest we know of. First, the provision of a Pidgin corpus of over 56000

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Language processing (NLP) work on this language. Unifies them all - West African Pidgin English. Despite the obviousĭiversity among people who speak these languages, one language significantly Download a PDF of the paper titled PidginUNMT: Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation from West African Pidgin to English, by Kelechi Ogueji and Orevaoghene Ahia Download PDF Abstract: Over 800 languages are spoken across West Africa.