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stopped being used after 1917...

Awfully precise. Did people stop knowing how to speak the language through massive self-imposed amnesia or did something change polically that banned or discouraged the use of the language?

Since 1917 is the year of the Revolution, I have to assume the later. -- orthogonal 05:08, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

It was a trade language, last time used about 1923 as it was this year the last Russian boat came to Norway. I would say it was made from about 45% Russian, 45% Norwegian and 10% loanwords from other languages. I will soon add some examples ~in the Norwegian version (check "Norsk". Jakro64 20:15, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

created by traders and whalers from the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago and the Russian Kola peninsula...

This is not true. The pomor trade happened in mainland Norway and in the Lofoten and Vesterålen archipealgios; far far away from Svalbard. Svalbard didn't even have a permanent population that early..

I must agree whith the person above. I dont know much about this language, but i have read that it was created for use during the pomor trade in northern Norway and the Kola peninsula. I have never seen Svalbard mentioned at all in connection with russenorsk. Inge 15:38, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

1 Description
2 Svalbard
3 Russian phrase
4 Mistake

[edit] Description

The sentence referring to minutiae and irrelevancies could well be reworded. Dpr

[edit] Svalbard

There was continued Russian-Norwegian contact after 1923 --Henrygb 09:11, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Russian phrase

Another name for the language was Moja på tvoja (from the Russian words моя "my", по "by" твоя "your," that parodied a perverted Russian phrase, meaning something like "I can speak in your language").

OK, but what is the phrase (there should be no reason we can't include it)? Also, this is confusingly worded.--Dhartung | Talk 06:55, 24 June 2006 (UTC)