Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin was a contact language (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

Kyakhta

Kyakhta is a town in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the Kyakhta River near the Russian-Mongolian border. Population: The town stands directly opposite the Mongolian border town of Altanbulag.-History:...

, a Russian town on the border with the Qing Empire

Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....

's Outer Mongolia

Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

, which for more than a century since its foundation in 1728 was the most important border trading point.

External links

• Мусорин А. Ю. Лексика кяхтинского пиджина // Функциональный анализ языковых единиц. Новосибирск, 2004. — С. 79-86.
• Перехвальская Е. В. Сибирский пиджин (дальневосточный вариант). Формирование. История. Структура. Автореферат диссертации на соискание ученой степени доктора филологических наук. СПб., 2006.
• Перехвальская, Елена Всеволодовна|Перехвальская Е. В. Русские пиджины. М.: Алетейя, 2008. ISBN 978-5-91419-131-0