Solombala-English

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Solombala-English
Spoken in: Solombala, Arkhangelsk, Russia
Language extinction: Late 19th century
Language family: English-Russian mixed pidgin 
Writing system: Russian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: crp
ISO 639-3:

Solombala-English or Solombala English-Russian Pidgin is a little-known pidgin mixed language, derived from both English and Russian, that was spoken in the port of Solombala in the neighborhood 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 губерний (Sketches from the district of Archangel) by Vasilij Vereščagin from 1849, and one in Архангельские Губернские Ведомости (Archangel District News) from 1867.

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[edit] Primary sources

  • Prušakevič, Ivan. "Соломбала зимою а летом", Архангельские Губернские Ведомости, 1867, p. 85. (Russian) 
  • Vereščagin, Vasilij (1849). Очерки Архангельской губерний (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Jakov Trej. 

[edit] Secondary sources

  • Broch, Ingvild (1996). "Solombala-English in Archangel", in Ernst Håkon Jahr, Ingvild Broch (eds.): Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages (in English). Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 93–98. 

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