Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin
Facts
- Language: Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin
- Alternate names:
- Language code: drusk
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, East Slavic
- Pidgin language
- Dialect of: Russian
- Number of speakers:
- Script:
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Introduction
Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin was a contact language (specifically a pidgin) used by Russian and Chinese traders to communicate during the 18th-early 20th century. The pidgin owes its name to the town of Kyakhta, a Russian town on the border with the Qing Empire's Outer Mongolia.
The Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin Verb
Most verbs end in -j/-i:
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- болей ("to be sick"),
- выгони ("to turn out"),
- захорони ("to bury"),
- гоняй ("to drive"),
- незнай ("to be unaware"),
- ругай ("to scold"),
- сади' ("to seat").
There are three tense-aspect markers and a zero-marker:
- было (past tense marker),
- буду (future tense marker),
- еса (present tense marker)