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Labrador Inuit Pidgin French, also called Belle Isle Pidgin or Inuit French Jargon, was a French-lexified pidgin spoken between Breton and Basque fishermen and the Inuit of Labrador from the late 17th century until about 1760.cite-ref-1[1]

• History

• Lexicon

• See also

• References

The first traces of Labrador Inuit Pidgin French (LIPF) first appear in 1694, though it is first fully attested in the 1740s by a French Canadian entrepreneur named Jean-Louis Fomel. He said the pidgin was used by the Inuit and made up of a mix of French, Spanish, and possibly Breton. The last attestations were recorded in the 1760s, though the pidgin almost certainly survived past this date.cite-ref-0-2-0[2]

The lexicon of LIPF was mostly French based but contained influence from Spanish, English, Dutch, Basque, and Breton.cite-ref-0-2-1[2]

• Algonquian–Basque pidgin, used in the same area

• NunatuKavummiut

cite-note-11. ↑ citerefarendsmuyskensmith1995Arends, Jacques; Muysken, Pieter; Smith, Norval (1995). Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 139. ISBN 978-90-272-5236-4.

cite-note-0-22. ↑ citerefbakker1991Bakker, Peter (1991). TRADE LANGUAGES IN THE STRAIT OF BELLE ISLE. University of Amsterdam. pp. 7–10.