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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 24:2 (2009) ► pp. 388–392
Book review

George Lang. Making Wawa: The genesis of Chinook Jargon
George Lang . . [First Nations Languages]. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. xiv, 198 pp. To order electronically, visit http://www.ubcpress.ca/

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| University of Toronto, Emeritus
Published online: 21 August 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.24.2.12sam
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