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Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Yokohamese or Japanese Ports Lingo was a Japanese-based pidgin spoken in the Yokohama area during the late 19th century for communication between Japanese and foreigners. Most information on Yokohama Pidgin comes from Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect a humorous pamphlet published in 1879 by Hoffman Atkinson.

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