Solombala English

Solombala-English
Region	Solombala, Arkhangelsk, Russia
Extinct	Late 19th century
Language family	English–Russian pidgin
Writing system	Russian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	solo1261

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.

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.

References

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.

See also

• Russenorsk