Solombala-English, or Solombala English–Russian Pidgin, is a little-known

pidgin A pidgin , 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 s ...

, derived from both

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national id ...

and

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

, that was spoken in the port of Solombala in the city of

Arkhangelsk Arkhangelsk (, ; rus, Арха́нгельск, p=ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲsk), also known in English as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near i ...

(Archangel),

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

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. __NOTOC__

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