Taimyr Pidgin Russian, also known as Govorka (), is a Russian-based

pidgin A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified form of contact language 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 f ...

spoken on the

Taimyr Peninsula The Taymyr Peninsula ( ) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal District, that forms the northernmost part of the mainland of Eurasia. Administratively it is part of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Federal subject of Russia. Ge ...

by the

Nganasan people The Nganasans ( ; Nganasan: ''ŋənəhsa(nəh)'', ''ńæh'') are a Uralic people of the Samoyedic peoples, Samoyedic branch native to the Taymyr Peninsula in north Siberia. In the Russian Federation, they are recognized as one of the indigenou ...

. Before the expansion of universal education in the 20th century, most Nganasan spoke only their own language and pidgin Russian.

Distribution

TPR is spoken by indigenous Nganasan and Dolgans in the Taimyr peninsula. The language is used to facilitate communication between two groups, especially in village with mixed populations like Ust-Avam and Volochanka.

Lexicon

The lexicon of TPR is mostly Russian in origin with occasion loanwords from Nganasan and

Dolgan Dolgans (; ; ) are a Turkicized Tungusic ethnic group who mostly inhabit Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. They are descended from several groups, particularly Evenks, one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North. Dolgans are the most closely r ...

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