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A standardized dictionary/lexicon for the variant of pidgin English that is spoken around Western-Africa.

https://yarnz.app/

It contains words and phrases with their accompanying context.



This is really cool. Do you speak this pidgin or are you trying to document it as a non-native?


Thank you! Yes, I'm from Nigeria. I became interested in this when I met people from other West African countries and learned that they speak the same type pidgin with tiny variations.




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