The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives
Alternate Title
Understanding Ancient Civilizations
E-Books
Author/Creator
Heather McKillop
Education thesis (M.Ed) -- Saint Mary's University, 1996.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2004.
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