Italian Eritrean

Italian Pidgin in Eritrea
Pidgin italiano in Eritrea
Simplified Italian of Eritrea (Italian Eritrean)
RegionEritrea
Era19th to late-20th centuries
Italian-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
IETFcrp-ER

Italian Pidgin in Eritrea (or Italian Eritrean, as is often called) was a pidgin language used in Italian Eritrea when Eritrea was a colony of Italy (and until the 1970s in the Asmara region).[1]