Re: Russian-based pidgins (was: Zelandish)

Hello,

> I am familiar with Russenorsk, but I must admit that I have
> never heard of
> Sino-Russian? What kind of language is that? Googling didn't
> help me much, but
> I'm quite eager to see some examples.
Well, one example I can remember from the lecture I had on it (but hey,
that was two years ago!) was:

[k_ji"taj@ts StA"n1 p@t_jE"r_jaj-l@]

The Chinese lost his trousers

The -l@ sounds a lot like the Russian -la fem. past ending, but is in
fact the Chinese _le_. Unfortunately, Vladimir Belikov, who is _the_
authority on pidgins and creoles, including but not limited to
RusseNorsk and the Chinese-Russian pidgin of Harbin (that's the one I
exemplified above), is not offering a course about them this semester -
but I am taking his Polynesian languages course :))

Pavel (taking Swedish, Latin, Old Church Slavic, Old Russian, Mod. Irish
_and_ the Polynesian languages)
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Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru

Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas
                 --Scottish proverb