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Chinese Pidgin English (also called Chinese Coastal English [1] or Pigeon English [2]) was 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 .
A pidgin [1] [2] [3] / ˈ p ɪ dʒ ɪ n /, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.
Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English. Pidgins that are spoken as first languages become creoles . English-based pidgins that became stable contact languages, and which have some documentation, include the following:
List of English words of Spanish origin; Llanito (an Andalusian vernacular unique to Gibraltar) Portuñol, the unsystematic mixture of Portuguese with Spanish; Siyokoy, hybrid words in Filipino and other Philippine languages derived from English and Spanish words; Spanglish (film) Spanish language in the United States; Spanish dialects and ...
The Order of the Dove (Spanish: Orden de la Paloma, meaning Order of the Pigeon, as the Spanish word paloma is used to refer to both doves and pigeons), was a short-lived military order, lasting for only one year after its inception.
West African Pidgin English arose during the period of the transatlantic slave trade as a language of commerce between British and African slave traders. Portuguese merchants were the first Europeans to trade in West Africa beginning in the 15th century, and West African Pidgin English contains numerous words of Portuguese origin such as sabi ('to know'), a derivation of the Portuguese saber. [3]
"Pigeon history is my Roman Empire. So glad this precious baby is being taken care of," wrote one person. "Pigeons were such an important part of history and saved lives! It's so sad that they're ...
The Time Of The Doves (also translated as The Pigeon Girl or In Diamond Square; [1] original Catalan-language: La plaça del Diamant, that is Diamond Square) is a 1962 novel written by exiled Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda. The book is named after a square [ca; es] in Barcelona's Gràcia district.