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.