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Publication details [#30326]

Drechsel, Emanual J. 1994. Mobilian jargon in the prehistory of Southeastern North America. In Kwachka, Patricia B., ed. Perspectives on the Southeast: Linguistics, archeology, and ethnohistory. (Southern Anthropological Association Proceedings 27). University of Georgia Press. pp. 25–43.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical linguistics | jargon | language contact | pidgin

Language as a subject

Mobilian Jargon

Annotation

This paper employs linguistic and sociopolitical evidence to argue for a pre-Columbian existence of the Mobilian Jargon, a southeastern North American contact language, which survived into the 20th century.