| Yokohama Pidgin Japanese | |
|---|---|
| Region | Yokohama, Japan |
| Extinct | End of the 19th century |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | yoko1234 |
| IETF | crp-u-sd-jp14 |
Yokohama Pidgin Japanese, Yokohamese or Japanese Ports Lingo was a Japanese-based pre-pidgin spoken in the Yokohama region during the late 19th century for communication between Japanese and foreigners, mainly English speaking westerners and Chinese traders.[1] Documentation of Yokohama Pidgin Japanese shows that it was not a stable pidgin, as it often varied between individual speakers, often dependent on the first language of the speaker.[2]
Andrei Avaram, a linguist from the University of Bucharest, referred to Yokohama Pidgin Japanese and Japanese Pidgin English as "Two sides of the same coin," due to both of them being contact languages used by traders, with little dominance between the contributing languages.[2]
Most of the first-hand information on the pidgin comes from "Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect," a humorous booklet published in 1879 by Hoffman Atkinson.
References
- ↑ Avram, Andrei A. (2014-12-31). "Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Revisited". Acta Linguistica Asiatica. 4 (2): 67–84. doi:10.4312/ala.4.2.67-84. ISSN 2232-3317.
- 1 2 Avram, Andrei A. (2017-06-28). ""Two Sides of the Same Coin": Yokohama Pidgin Japanese and Japanese Pidgin English". Acta Linguistica Asiatica. 7 (1): 57–76. doi:10.4312/ala.7.1.57-76. ISSN 2232-3317.
- Atkinson, Hoffman (1879). Revised and Enlarged Edition of Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect. Yokohama. OL 14038644M.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Daniels, F. J. (1948). "The Vocabulary of Japanese Ports Lingo". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 12 (3/4): 805–823. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00083385. S2CID 62765771.