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- proper noun uncountable An informal Native American trade
language used among the tribes of the US Southeast, primarily along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. May have originally been the language of one particular tribe. - proper noun countable One of the
Native American people with Chief Tuscaloosa inAlabama (circa 1540).
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Examples
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I ought perhaps to except out of this number the Taensas, who being a branch of the Natchez, have still preserved their peculiar language; but even these speak, in general, the corrupted Chicasaw language, which our French settlers call the Mobilian language.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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There is evidence that it is derived from the Choctaw word choluk or chiluk, signifying a pit or cave, and comes to us through the so-called Mobilian trade language, a corrupted Choctaw jargon formerly used as the medium of communication among all the tribes of the Gulf States, as far north as the mouth of the Ohio.
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Chief among these were the "Mobilian" of the Gulf states based upon Choctaw; the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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