airsaylongcon:


That Sierra Leone own is baaaaaaad. But to say Lagos is the "Pigeon" English capital of Nigeria is to give yourself away. Warri is the eternal capital of Nigerian pidgin #fact

Anybody way call Lagos capital of pidgin English fall hand shaa. Guess that person never come down south.

babeflenz:


I hail you Bros..

I hail you back with multiple language

abeg oo .. mke una no skin me alive oo .. i give up .. una wafis ,na una get pidgin,troway salute for una .. lagos dey learn for where una dey .. una don happy soo??

Dapsonemmanuel:
abeg oo .. mke una no skin me alive oo .. i give up .. una wafis ,na una get pidgin,troway salute for una .. lagos dey learn for where una dey .. una don happy soo??

We never happy, drop a crate of origin and drop Deve then we fit free U

Ekinematics:



Lol. Go to PH, then go to Warri and compare how many persons you meet on a daily basis that converse with pidgin. I repeat stop mistaking accent or slang for number of speakers.

You have been rambling about PH speakers. I will let it slide

Ekinematics:
No SE city should be on that list.
My list based on number of speakers will be;

1. PH
2. Benin
3. Warri
4. Lagos
5. Yenagoa
5. Calabar

Rubbish list. Playing ostrich

erico2k2:

We never happy, drop a crate of origin and drop Deve then we fit free U

.. lol ...if uan fit come my crib .. i get something wey pass that one

Dapsonemmanuel:
.. lol ...if uan fit come my crib .. i get something wey pass that one

nah only U dey stay abi U dey follow your papa dey stay?

UnknownT:
All the cities in the south south. A small boy greeted me "Meigwo" some weeks back, I replied "Vrendo" and added "Mavo", he replied ," fine".
I asked him why he didn't reply me in urhobo, he said he can't, he understands little

What's the meaning of MAVO?

OoniOfIfe:


What's the meaning of MAVO?

MAVO means How are U, in Urhobo language, not pidgin though.

Yoruba reigns supreme everywhere in the West + Kwara.
Pidgin has some grounds in Lagos, cause of the heavy migrant population there..
Lagos is like 40:40:20 (English:Yoruba:Pidgin)

When I saw Ibadan there, I was like what a joke.

Papykush:

Based on logistics, Pidgin should be one of our official languages in Nigeria but these Niggas are suffering from inferiority complex.

Pidgin should be our official language instead of British English, Nigeria is fake, we don't have our own identity, we are lost

Ibadan no join. I say I be like celeb when I start to yarn for there.

erico2k2:

MAVO means How are U, in Urhobo language, not pidgin though.

Okay I never knew,
One of my friend is called Mavo and it have taken over his name, the guy lived in Port

sotall:
From your list, if Warri should get number one spot for pidgin English in Nigeria, I don't see any reason Benin is not in number two.

All criteria that placed warri in number one, automatically places Benin in number two

God Bless U

unstableaswater:


Stop deceiving yourself, there is an Igbo part of Delta, Urhobo part, Ijaw part and Itsekiri part.

The problem we have in this country is wen people deliberately try to be dumb.

Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu a delta man led a coup, till this day it is still referred to as the Igbo Coup.

Subsequently Tens of thousands of Igbo people were attacked and murdered in the North, y did they not focus the repercussions on other delta and edo tribe only, y igbos had to die for wat a Delta man did?

That Coup was the only coup given a tribe in the history of Nigeria.

Don't argue with him, he must be Edo

benin is number four?...op,u must be joking...beenin and warri are in same level

Dapsonemmanuel:
to me i feel lag should top that list .. there's even this thing with posh pidgin trending in lag nw and besides most pidgin slang were created in lag

mtcheww..ogbeni goan sidan....even who u epp,u don baff is a binin slang....we have been using it before olamide popularised it......pidgin in lagos is rubbish

my own list:
.BENIN :WARRI :SAPELE :UGHELLI :PORTHARCOURT LAGOS

others are not worth it

erico2k2:

nah only U dey stay abi U dey follow your papa dey stay?

.. bruh.. na only me oo .. me na bachelor

this yeye op no know wati hr dey talk, Warri
Benin
PH
Others

martineverest:
mtcheww..ogbeni goan sidan....even who u epp,u don baff is a binin slang....we have been using it before olamide popularised it......pidgin in lagos is rubbish

bruh .ayaff accepted defeat already na

unstableaswater:


If u are talking about accent and style try Sierra Leone, Warri will look like child play but if u are talking scale and population, warri is an ant compared to the giant that is Lagos.

Lagos is the English and Pigeon English capital of Nigeria followed by Abuja, then Warri, Port Harcourt, Benin and Asaba

my guy,lagos is not even among top 5......not even top 3.....i ve been a lagosian for 21yrs,schooled in benin,the kind of pidgin we speak in lag is rubbish......benin and warri shub be dragging number one ,the n sapele before portharcourt

erico2k2:

You are missing the point, grassroots language of a local population would be spoken in the car park, and this is fact.
So I stand to be corrected.

but not in edo state or warri......all public places in edo,even govt house,rock pidgin.....when i was in uniben,my lecturers,at times,rock pidgin

gerg:
The length and breadth of Edo and Delta Speak good pidgin though some places speak better pidgin than others. but I think there are some places at the Northern part of Edo that might not be so good in Pidgin but all the part of Delta flow good in pidgin including the rural parts.

my guy,EDO state is number one pidgin state in nigeria...no one,not even delta is close to edo.........every nooks and cranny of edo speak pidgin....the edo north u talked about speak more pidgin than lagos....urobosare the only ppl that compete with edos...ijaws and itshekiris are close,but they speak their native tongues first...aniomas are not even counted in delta...edo north has the one of the highest concentration of pidgin in naija

Pls 0P explain what category puts Warri ahead of benin?have ever seen an edo man that can't pidgin so well talk more of benin?

harizonal123:
Warri, Sapele, Benin are 123 for me in that order. I put Sapele ahead of Benin cos they don't make use of their local dialect there unlike Benin u see people speaking beinn everywhere. In pH they speak pidgin,I agree but a very simple and diluted form of it

my guy,u are wrong.......benin chiefs lamented some yrs back dat benin languages are in jeopardy due to poor and low speakers......average bini man speak pidgin,about 9 out of 10 words that comes out of his mouth

airsaylongcon:


I laugh at you in the 5 Languages of Warri. Pidgin slang created in Lagos? Even the legendary "U don baff" nobi Lagos slang. U know wetin e mean if person too say "I go cover you"? U nova riri baff

dats what lagosians dont know ...i have been hearing u don baff in benin,5 yrs bfore olamide colonised it?

Dapsonemmanuel:
tahh... lagos pidgin get more slangs than warri inhibitants pidgin speakers

i cry for u.......pidin pidgin is COMPLETELY SLANG...its BENIN and SAPELE pidgin that are real pidgin..UNIBEN speak a UNIFIED pidgin....i bet u,if aWARRI man tells u something as a LAGOSIAN,u will do a TOTALLY different thing...a warri man has SLANG for all NAIRA denotions...u HARDLY hear 10NAIRA;50 naira in warri....most of the warri pidgin comedians think they are speaking in lagos are actually not warfi.

If u include cities and town to op list,lagos and portharcourt wont make top 10....edo and delta towns will overtake tother cstates cities

martineverest:
my guy,EDO state is number one pidgin state in nigeria...no one,not even delta is close to edo.........every nooks and cranny of edo speak pidgin....the edo north u talked about speak more pidgin than lagos....urobosare the only ppl that compete with edos...ijaws and itshekiris are close,but they speak their native tongues first...aniomas are not even counted in delta...edo north has the one of the highest concentration of pidgin in naija

Your first point shows you don't know what you are talking about

gerg:
Your first point shows you don't know what you are talking about

are u from delta aor edo?...NO...i am an EDO/DELTA BREED.born in one,schooled in the other.

Edo state has more languages than delta.......a village in edo has more potential to speak more than one language than those in delta..my mother is ishan,they have huge variety of ishan.its pidgin that bound every edo tribes together......in delta,its only 'edo speaking' part ,urhobo,that speak full pidgin.....the ijaw and itshekiri speak their languages first,while the aniomas speak ibos first and pidgin far less....i was in edo 2 weeks ago,i could count the number of ppl that spoke their languagesothers rocked pidgin.....