Yokohama Pidgin Japanese

Yokohama Pidgin Japanese
Region	Yokohama, Japan
Extinct	End of the 19th century
Language family	Japanese-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	yoko1234[1]

Yokohama Pidgin Japanese, Yokohamese or Japanese Ports Lingo was a Japanese-based pidgin spoken in the Yokohama area during the late 19th century for communication between Japanese and foreigners. Most information on Yokohama Pidgin comes from Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect, a humorous pamphlet published in 1879 by Hoffman Atkinson.

References

1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yokohama Pidgin". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

• Atkinson, Hoffman (1879). Revised and Enlarged Edition of Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect. Yokohama.
• Daniels, F. J. (1948). "The Vocabulary of Japanese Ports Lingo". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 12 (3/4): 805–823. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00083385.