Over the short period of my existence, I have noticed a continuous trend in the intensive pidginization of the various Southern Kaduna languages and their dialects by people who are supposed to be the native speakers of these languages. If it were to be foreigners who are pidginizing these languages, it would be understandable that

Prior to the arrival of the British colonialists in the early 20th century into the Middle Belt (Central) Nigerian territory which was to be known as Southern Zaria (now Southern Kaduna), there existed a related sets of people who were mostly monolingual (i.e. spoke languages and/or dialects of their cultural area). Only the few who