Chinese Pidgin English

Chinese Pidgin English
Chinese Pidgin English
Region	China
Extinct	Extinct in China; survives in Nauruan Pidgin English
Language family	English pidgin
Dialects	Nauruan Pidgin English;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cpi
Glottolog	chin1253
Linguasphere	52-ABB-da

Chinese Pidgin English (also called Chinese Coastal English^[1] or Pigeon English^[2]) is a pidgin language lexically based on English, but influenced by a Chinese substratum. From the 17th to the 19th centuries, there was also Chinese Pidgin English spoken in Cantonese-speaking portions of China. Chinese Pidgin English is heavily influenced by a number of varieties of Chinese with variants arising among different provinces (for example in Shanghai and Ningbo).

^ Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews, and Geoff Smith. "China Coast Pidgin: texts and contexts." Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages 25.1 (2010): 63–94.
^ 東方日報亂世達觀：白鴿英語現代篇 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2012-02-12.

[1] Ansaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews, and Geoff Smith. "China Coast Pidgin: texts and contexts." Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages 25.1 (2010): 63–94.

[2] 東方日報亂世達觀：白鴿英語現代篇 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2012-02-12.

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