Solombala-English, or Solombala English–Russian Pidgin, is a little-known pidgin, derived from both English and Russian, that was spoken in the port of Solombala in the city of Arkhangelsk (Archangel), Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Solombala-English
RegionSolombala, Arkhangelsk, Russia
ExtinctLate 19th century[citation needed]
Russian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologsolo1261
IETFcre-u-sd-ruark

The known Solombala-English corpus consists of only two short 19th-century texts: one in Очерки Архангельской губернии (Sketches from Arkhangelsk governorate) by Vasilij Vereščagin from 1849, and one in Архангельские Губернские Ведомости (Arkhangelsk Governorate News) from 1867.


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Primary sources

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  • Prušakevič, Ivan (1867). Соломбала зимою и летом. Архангельские Губернские Ведомости (in Russian). p. 85.
  • Vereščagin, Vasilij (1849). Очерки Архангельской губернии (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Jakov Trej.

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