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Chinese pidgin English
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Chinese Pidgin English
English
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Alternative forms
en Chinese Pidgin English
en CPE
Proper noun
An English-lexifier pidgin used along the Chinese coast from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
en 2015 James Lambert Lan Li; Jamie McKeown; Liming Liu Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong 146 The term missy appears to be a Chinese Pidgin English term from English miss + the Cantonese phonotactic suffix -ee/-y, though perhaps owes something to the pre-existing British English diminutive of miss.
Synonyms
en Canton Jargon, en China Coast Pidgin, en pidgin English, en Pidgin English
Translations
an English-lexifier pidgin formerly used along the Chinese coast
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 洋涇浜英語 Yángjīngbāng Yīngyǔ
Portuguese: pt pidgin inglês da China m
Further reading
Chinese Pidgin English
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