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Kelvinidan
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
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.
franklin_p_dyer
on April 29, 2025
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This is really cool. Do you speak this pidgin or are you trying to document it as a non-native?
Kelvinidan
on April 29, 2025
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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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https://yarnz.app/
It contains words and phrases with their accompanying context.