Looks like a pidgin to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin And, indeed, scrolling down the Wikipedia page, we come to.

Looks like a pidgin to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin And, indeed, scrolling down the Wikipedia page, we come to... Nigerian Pidgin! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Pidgin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Pidgin Which might actually be a creole, or a superset containing some creoles. Ask a linguistics Ph.D. [1] Of course, I'm a linguistics fanboy, not an amateur Nigerian, so I can't actually tell you what this sentence is trying to say. All I know how to do is pin it to a board in a collecting box. ;) But there's a lot of other people you could ask: Nigerian Pidgin is the native language of approximately 3 to 5 million people and is a second language for at least another 75 million. --- [1] Recommended background reading: Pinker's The Language Instinct