Abstract
Northern Asia, which includes the whole of the former Soviet Union and surrounding areas, is home to a number of pidgins and mixed languages, some of which have Russian as their chief lexifier, while others draw their lexicon from Chinese, Chukchi, Uyghur, and other languages. Few of these have been extensively documented, and many of them are obsolete or in a severe stage of endangerment. They serve various purposes including being used as in-group languages or as cryptolects. Some of these languages lasted barely a year, while others were in use for hundreds of years. The amount of documentation of these languages has increased greatly since the 1980s and what we have available on them is likely, even at this eleventh hour, to broaden and diversify general linguistic understanding of the range of attested models of pidgins and mixed languages very considerably.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The languages and linguistics of Northern Asia |
Subtitle of host publication | Typology, Morphosyntax and Socio-historical Perspectives |
Editors | Edward Vajda |
Publisher | Mouton de Gruyter |
Chapter | 20 |
Pages | 1157-1173 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Volume | 2 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783111378381 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783111378220 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Mar 2024 |
Keywords
- Linguistics and Semiotics
- Linguistics
- Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines