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Encyclopedia: Russenorsk

Russenorsk or Russonorsk (Norwegian for "Russo-Norwegian") was a pidgin language combining elements of Russian and Norwegian, created by traders and whalers from northern Norway and the Russian Kola peninsula. Another name for the language was Moja på tvoja that parodied a perverted Russian phrase, meaning something like "I can speak in your language" (from the Russian words моя (moya) "my", по (po) here used to mean "in" (по-русски (po russki) means "in Russian" in Russian) твоя (tvoya) "your")

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How to say "Russenorsk" in other languages:

	(German)	Russenorsk
	(Italian)	Lingua russonorsk

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Russenorsk language

Russenorsk was a pidgin language combining elements of Russian and Norwegian. The presence of... some minimal form of communication. Like all pidgins, Russenorsk was not a complex system of..." irrelevant to the situation, e.g. existentialism, music, etc. Some scholars do not classify Russenorsk as...

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Pidgin

called Canton English . Recent Pidgins Russenorsk - combined Russian and Norwegian to create a...

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European languages

(Norwegian Bokmål) Russenorsk language Swedish West Germanic High German German Middle German...

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List of languages

) Romanian (Romance) Romanica (constructed Romance) Romansh (Romance) Romany (Indo-Iranian) Russenorsk...

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Russian language

language is based on the Moscow dialect. Derived languages Russenorsk is a pidgin language combining...

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