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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.
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| Solombala-English | |
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| Region | Solombala, Arkhangelsk, Russia |
| Extinct | Late 19th century[citation needed] |
| Russian alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | solo1261 |
| IETF | cre-u-sd-ruark |
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.
Primary sources
- Prušakevič, Ivan (1867). Соломбала зимою и летом. Архангельские Губернские Ведомости (in Russian). p. 85.
- Vereščagin, Vasilij (1849). Очерки Архангельской губернии (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Jakov Trej.
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. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 93–98. doi:10.1515/9783110813302.93. ISBN 9783110813302.
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