Chinese Pidgin English Language (cpi)

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Also Known As: Chinese Pidgin English


Description:

Chinese Pidgin English (simplified Chinese: 洋泾浜英语; traditional Chinese: 洋涇濱英語; pinyin: yáng jìng bāng yīng yǔ) is a Pidgin language between English and Chinese. From the 17th to the 19th centuries, there was also Chinese Pidgin English spoken in Cantonese-speaking portions of China. Chinese Pidgin English is spoken by thousands of people. Chinese Pidgin English is heavily influenced by Chinese languages. Other variants of Chinese Pidgin English arose in Shanghai and Ningbo, where they lead to English loanwords in Shanghai dialect and Ningbo dialect. Chinese Pidgin English is no longer spoken in China, but its descendant, Chinglish, is spoken in China. English first arrived in China in the 1630s, when British traders arrived in South China. Chinese Pidgin English was spoken first in the areas of Macao and Guangzhou, later spreading north to Shanghai by the 1830s. "Yangjing Bang English" in Chinese (洋涇濱, or 洋泾浜) derives from the name of a former creek in Shanghai near the Bund where local workers communicated with English-speaking foreigners in pidgin (broken English).

Historically, it was a modified form of English developed in the 17th century for use as a trade language or lingua..... full article at Wikipedia

Location of Chinese Pidgin English Language Speakers

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Overview

Main Country: Nauru
Spoken In:

Regions: Oceania

ISO 639-3 Code: cpi

Classification Taxonomy

All Languages

  Pidgin Group

    English based Pidgin Group

      Pidgin Pacific English based Group

        Chinese Pidgin English Language