Barikanchi Pidgin

Barikanci (Barikanci), or Bastard Hausa derived from the word bariki which means barracks ,[3] is a pidgin of the Hausa language [4] spoken in Nigeria due to the diverse ethnicity of the Nigeria's Army in which majority are from the northern part of the country, which led to Hausa language being the lingua franca and thereby pave way for the pidgin Hausa which is also known as hausan bariki. Principally in military barracks.[5] The language developed in the British Army barracks of northern Nigeria in the first part of the 20th century, and was used as a lingua franca among Nigerians of diverse language backgrounds.[6]

Barikanci
Native toNigeria
Native speakers
None[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bxo
Glottologbari1241
ELPBarikanchi[2]

See also

References
  1. Barikanci at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Barikanchi.
  3. Bede Osaji (1979). Language survey in Nigeria. Centre international de recherche sur le bilinguisme. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  4. Cristiana Fiamingo (2000). L'Africa subsahariana: ambiente, storia, strutture di potere, lingue, popoli, religioni, cronologia, glossario. Edizioni Pendragon. pp. 77–. ISBN 978-88-8342-034-4. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  5. Barbara F. Grimes; Joseph Evans Grimes; Summer Institute of Linguistics (1 November 2000). Ethnologue. SIL International. ISBN 978-1-55671-103-9. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  6. Pidginization and Creolization of Languages. CUP Archive. 1971. pp. 518–. GGKEY:07X8JT2JN9L. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
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