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Pidgin Massachusett
Massachusett Jargon
Region
New England and Long Island, particularly eastern Massachusetts.[1]
Era
17th century. Extinct early 18th century.[2]
Language family
Massachusett-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
None (mis)
Glottolog
None
IETF
crp-u-sd-usma
Massachusett Pidgin or Massachusett Jargon was a contact pidgin or auxiliary language derived from the Massachusett language attested in the earliest colonial records up until the mid-eighteenth century. Little is known about the language, but it shared a much simplified grammatical system, with many features similar to the better attested Delaware Jargon spoken in the nearby Hudson and Delaware watersheds.[3][4] It was mutually intelligible with the other Southern New England Algonquian languages.
^Bailey, R. W. (2012). Speaking American: A History of English in the United States. (pp. 33-34). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
^Thomason, S. G. (1997). Contact Languages: A Wider Perspective. (p. 95). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing.
^Campbell, L. (p. 20). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
^Goddard, I. (2000). 'The Use of Pidgins and Jargons on the East Coast of North America' in The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800: A Collection of Essays Gray, E. G. and Fiering, N. (eds). (pp. 74-75). New York, NY: Bergahn Books.
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