Social:Solombala English

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Short description: Language mixing English and Russian formerly used in an Arctic port
Solombala-English
RegionSolombala, Arkhangelsk, Russia
English–Russian pidgin
Russian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologsolo1261[1]

Solombala-English, or Solombala English–Russian Pidgin, is a little-known pidgin, derived from both English and Russian, that was spoken in the port of Solombala in the city of Arkhangelsk (Archangel), Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The known Solombala-English corpus consists of only two short 19th-century texts: one in Очерки Архангельской губернии (Sketches from Arkhangelsk governorate) by Vasilij Vereščagin from 1849, and one in Архангельские Губернские Ведомости (Arkhangelsk Governorate News) from 1867.


References

Primary sources

  • Prušakevič, Ivan (1867). (in Russian)Архангельские Губернские Ведомости: p. 85. 
  • Vereščagin, Vasilij (1849) (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Jakov Trej. 

Secondary sources

See also




  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Solombala English". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/solo1261.