The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs. It has its roots in West African languages such as Yoruba, Igbo, and Twi, but it has been influenced by other languages too.

This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana as well as a comprehensive structural description of the “uneducated” variety of GhaPE. Pidgin English is a simplified version of English that is spoken in many regions around the world.

Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. Definition of Pidgin English: Contact language which came about as a result of the trading activities between Nigerians and the white traders in the coastal. This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE’s structure and sociolinguistics.

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