This proposal has been approved. The Board of Trustees and language committee have deemed that there is sufficient grounds and community to create the new language project.
A committee member provided the following comment:
The community needs to develop an active test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics, recent changes). It is generally considered active if the analysis lists at least three active, not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections for the previous few months.
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Number of Speakers: 3 to 5 Million native, 75 Million as second language
Spoken in: Nigeria, United Kingdom (immigrant community), United States (immigrant community)
Related languages: Jamaican Patois, English, Igbo, Portuguese, Spanish
Nigerian Pidgin is a English based Pidgin spoken in Nigeria. It is commonly known as Naija. Also known as "Broken" or "Brokin" due to the use of slang words. There is a large internet community in Nigeria and this would make this Wikipedia grow.
Support Nigerian Pidgin is a large language. It would be a growing wiki.--Kanzler31 04:24, 13 July 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support: I'll go for it, even though I'm not from Nigeria. --TrooperAnimalLover
Support. The BBC News website recently added a Nigerian Pidgin language translation. Also, there are already Haitian and Jamaican pidgin Wikipedias. KATMAKROFAN (talk) 03:56, 5 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support. The language is spoken by 30 million people in Nigeria, not all of whom speak standard English. Adsci8 (talk) 03:31, 15 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Very Strong Support. This is the most widely used language in the most populous country in Africa. It is used all over social media and even has a BBC edition. I'm surprised that there isn't already a Nigerian Pidgin Wikipedia. Sabon Harshe (talk) 16:49, 24 December 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Strongest Support This language is getting more popular around Africa and the world at large by the day. It is used in numerous African countries (if not all). This is highly anticipated Ugochimobi (talk) 11:09, 25 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose: where are the native speakers? 188.2.7.158 14:21, 2 June 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Comment: Nearly 200 million speakers in Africa, more than what most Wikipedia language editions have. Sabon Harshe (talk) 16:52, 24 December 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose: It's a spoken English dialect and there is no orthography for --77.97.97.21 19:24, 30 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Comment: Very wrong. There is an orthography. There are Nigerian Pidgin Bibles and standardised ways of writing Nigerian Pidgin. And have you seen BBC Pidgin? Sabon Harshe (talk) 16:52, 24 December 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
