Following the first and second war from1839 to 1842, Pidgin English spread north to Shanghai and other treaty ports.

It originated as a Chinese mispronunciation of the English word 'business'. criollo and crioulo were originally qualifiers used throughout the Spanish and Portuguese colonies to distinguish the members of an ethnic group that were born and raised locally from those who immigrated as adults.'ĬHINLISH: Chinese Pidgin English originated as a lingua franca for trade between the British and mostly Cantonese-speaking Chinese people.

As a consequence of colonial European trade patterns, most of the known European-based Creole languages arose in the equatorial belt around the world and in areas with access to the oceans, including the coastal regions of the Americas, West Africa, Goa, the west coast of India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Macau, Philippines, Malaysia and Oceania. Over time, the term and its derivatives (Creole, Kreyol, Kriol, Krio, etc.) lost the generic meaning and became the proper name of many distinct ethnic groups that developed locally from immigrant communities. However in Brazil, the term was also used to distinguish between blacks born in Brazil from African slave ancestors and those born in Africa. The terms criollo and crioulo were originally qualifiers used throughout the Spanish and Portuguese colonies to distinguish the members of an ethnic group that were born and raised locally from those who immigrated as adults.

The specific sense of the term was coined in the 16th and 17th century, during the great expansion in European maritime power and trade that led to the establishment of European colonies in other continents. The English term Creole comes from French Créole.

Jamaican pidgin