Pidgin: Used to mean keep going, long live. O bossoĭuala: From ‘O boso’, meaning in front, ahead, long live. Nyangoĭuala: From ‘Nyango’, meaning mother, mummy.Įxample: Na som nyango so. Pidgin: Used to mean meat, animal (insultive).Įxample: Nyama!! – You beast!!, Dat nyama get taste. Nikaĭuala: From ‘Ninka’, meaning like this, like that and ‘Ninka so’ / ‘Ninka mene’, meaning that’s right!, yeah right!? BoleĮxamples: A dun bolo sotey a taya! – I am exhausted from all that work! BwamĮxample: A dey bwam! – I am good! or I am fine! MbaleĮxample: Mbale! A no doam. While some of the borrowed Duala words have maintained their meaning, a few have seen theirs changed.

Share photos and translations, record pronunciations, make friends. Find names, words, proverbs, jokes, slangs in Nigerian languages, and their meaning. Same phrase in Duala, French and English The 9 words in their pidgin form Say something and translate it into Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin or Yoruba. This naturally made it incorporated in this Cameroonian creole. Mother-tongue to the indigenous population of Cameroon’s economic capital Douala, Duala saw itself adopted as the common language to many villages of the Cameroonian coastal line, making it the 1st most spoken dialect in the city and the 7th most spoken language in the country. Lyrics from Devil No Di Really Sleep by Pascal.

Pidgin words and their meaning