Chinese pidgin English

See also: Chinese Pidgin English

English

Alternative forms

• Chinese Pidgin English
• CPE

Proper noun

Chinese pidgin English

1. An English-lexifier pidgin used along the Chinese coast from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
   • 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 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

• Canton Jargon, China Coast Pidgin, pidgin English, Pidgin English

Translations

an English-lexifier pidgin formerly used along the Chinese coast

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洋涇浜英語／洋泾浜英语 (zh) (Yángjīngbāng Yīngyǔ)

• Portuguese: pidgin inglês da China m

Further reading

• Chinese Pidgin English on Wikipedia.Wikipedia