Among these are scattered reports of the pidgin being spoken farther inland, such as in Chungking (Chongqing) and Hankow (Hankou), and farther north, in Kyong Song (Seoul) and even Vladivostok. Many attestations of the language being spoken come from writings of Western travelers in China. Ĭhinese Pidgin English spread to regions beyond the Chinese Coast. Ĭhinese Pidgin English began to decline in the late 19th century as standard English began to be taught in the country's education system.
The term "pidgin" itself is believed by some etymologists to be a corruption of the pronunciation of the English word "business" by the Chinese (see Pidgin § Etymology). Pidgin English was developed by the English and adapted by the Chinese for business purposes. Chinese Pidgin started in Guangzhou, China, after the English established their first trading port there in 1699. Historically, it was a modified form of English developed in the 17th century for use as a trade language or lingua franca between the English and the Chinese. "Yangjing Bang English" in Chinese ( 洋涇浜 洋泾浜) derives from the name of a former creek in Shanghai near the Bund where local workers communicated with English-speaking foreigners in pidgin (broken English) Yangjing Bang has since been filled in and is now the eastern part of Yan'an Road, the main east–west artery of central Shanghai. Chinese Pidgin English was spoken first in the areas of Macao and Guangzhou (City of Canton), later spreading north to Shanghai by the 1830s. The English language first arrived in China in the 1630s, when English traders arrived in South China. Chinese Pidgin English is heavily influenced by a number of varieties of Chinese with variants arising among different provinces (for example in Shanghai and Ningbo). From the 17th to the 19th centuries, there was also Chinese Pidgin English spoken in Cantonese-speaking portions of China.
Chinese Pidgin English (also called Chinese Coastal English or Pigeon English is a pidgin language lexically based on English, but influenced by a Chinese substratum.
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