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Borgarmålet
A Sámi-Swedish pidgin from the beginning of the 18th century
Borgarmålet ‘language of the townspeople’ was a trade idiom used by the Swedish townspeople and the Sámi during periods of seasonal trade
in Swedish Lule Lappmark at the beginning of the 18th century. The analysis of the five sentences in this trade language provided by P.
Högström (in a book published in 1747) allows us to suggest that Borgarmålet was a typical pidgin characterized by a vocabulary derived
mostly from the superstrate language (Swedish), by a stable simplified grammatical structure without synthetic forms and by direct or
transformed grammatical interference from the substrate language (Sámi). Borgarmålet was also characterised by innovations of its own in
word-formation as well as in grammar, a feature typical of pidgins. A special feature to differentiate Borgarmålet from other pidgins is a
transfer of aspectuality – expressed in Sámi by different suffixes but in Borgarmålet with the help of lexical means from Swedish.
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