Fecharese–Hagt pidgin

The Fecharese–Hagt pidgin (Fecharese: Fatenajmisu ; Hagt: Lagaggaren Sisarisu ) is a trade pidgin between the Fecharese people and the Hagt-speaking Taot people around Kint.

History
Fecharese traders who sailed to Noco used the pidgin as a means of communication with locals. A Hagt book about the pidgin is as follows:

Since the moment the Fecharese came, there’s been a constant trade between them and us, but there was a problem: the Fecharese and Hagt languages are completely different. Thus, mixing them, they made a new language to communicate. The language isn’t very complex, it has only a few words, just the most important ones to trade.

Phonology
The Fecharese–Hagt pidgin has 9 consonant phonemes and 3 vowel phonemes

Consonants

 * The palatal stop /c/ is realised as an affricate allophone [t͡ɕ] for some speakers.
 * Voiceless plosives are optionally voiced between vowels.

Vowels
Vowels are not phonemically distinguished by length, unlike in Hagt.

Grammar
The word order for the Fecharese–Hagt pidgin is stricly verb–object–subject.


 * Wan sunim ni — I want bread. (lit. want bread I)

Vocabulary
The pidgin has a few basic vocabulary words relevant to trade.


 * aka/toni — market
 * an — grain
 * asin — to buy
 * ipo — copper
 * kar — to sell
 * kun — gold
 * lit — iron
 * mai — boat
 * ni — I, me; money
 * puk — ship
 * sat — merchant
 * sunim — bread
 * wan — to want