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Chinese Pidgin English (also called Chinese Coastal English or Pigeon English simplified Chinese: 洋泾浜英语; traditional Chinese: 洋涇濱英語; pinyin: yáng jìng bāng yīng yǔ) is a pidgin language lexically based on English but influenced by a Chinese substratum. From the 17th to the 19th centuries there was also Chinese Pidgin English spoken in Cantonese-speaking portions of China.