Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 17:18:55 -0500
From: Beverly Flanigan FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU
Subject: Re: Mobelian (sp?)
It's Mobilian Jargon, and it was not slang at all but rather a kind of
pidgin formed from several southern U.S. Indian languages and used for
intertribal trade. White traders and settlers picked it up and used it
to some extent, but it was primarily used intertribally. The linguist
who's worked on it extensively is Emmanuel Drechsel, who's now at the
U. of Hawaii. His dissertation has just been published, by Oxford UP.