Arctic Origin and Domestic Development of Chinook Jargon
Alternate Title
International Tromsø Symposium on Language ; 9th, 1992
Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages
Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs ; 88
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Author/Creator
William J. Samarin
Description
Looks at characteristics of the population that would have found the mixed language useful and how it developed through marriages between traders and Indigenous women.
Chapter from: Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr and Ingvild Broch