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Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin (Russian: Кяхтинский язык; simplified Chinese: 中俄混合语; traditional Chinese: 中俄混合語; pinyin: zhōng’ěhùnhéyŭ) 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 a Russian town on the border with the Qing Empire’s Outer Mongolia which for more than a century since its foundation in 1728 was the most important border trading point.