Inuktitut-English Pidgin

Inuit-based pidgin of Canada
Inuktitut-English Pidgin
Native toEastern Canadian Arctic
Erauntil the 1960s
Language family
Inuit-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone

Inuktitut-English Pidgin was an Inuit pidgin used as a contact language in Quebec, Labrador, and neighboring areas of the eastern Arctic. It consisted of uninflected Inuktitut word stems arranged in an English SVO order. Thus for Inuit takuvagit "I see you" was pidgin uvanga taku ivvit.

References

  • Marianne Mithun (2001) The Languages of Native North America, p 595


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