Labrador Inuit Pidgin French

Labrador Inuit Pidgin French, also called Belle Isle Pidgin, was a French-lexified pidgin spoken between Breton and Basque fishermen and the Inuit of Labrador from the late 17th century until about 1760.

Labrador Inuit Pidgin French
Belle Isle Pidgin
RegionStraits of Belle Isle
Eralate 17th century until ca. 1760
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologbell1264[1]

See also

  • Algonquian-Basque pidgin, used in the same area

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Belle-Isle Pidgin". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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