Indo-European · West Africa

Nigerian Pidgin

Not endangered

Nigerian Pidgin is documented so far only to the level of long grammar.

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FamilyIndo-European
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationLong grammar
ISO 639-3pcm
Glottocodenige1257

Spoken in Nigeria

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Indo-European's family tree with Nigerian Pidgin.

  1. Ghanaian Pidgin English

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  2. Cameroon Pidgin

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  3. Krio

    Not endangered
    Grammar

  4. Pichi

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  5. English

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  6. Afrikaans

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  7. Oorlams

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  8. Angolar

    Threatened
    Long grammar

Reference data for Nigerian Pidgin from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)