Chinese Pidgin English (also called Chinese Coastal English or Pigeon English, simplified Chinese: 洋泾浜英语; traditional Chinese: 洋涇浜英語; pinyin: Yángjìng bāng yīngyǔ) is a pidgin language lexically based on English, but influenced by a Chinese substratum. From the 17th to the 19th centuries, there was also Chinese Pidgin English spoken in Cantonese-speaking portions of China.