Surf these sites: A Glossary of Lingua Franca -- Lingua Franca is a pidgin, a trade language used by numerous language communities around the Mediterranean, to communicate with others whose language they did not speak. It is, in fact, the mother of all pidgins, seemingly in use since the Middle Ages. Tenas Wawa -- "Tenas Wawa" was a semimonthly newsletter about the Chinook Jargon- a mixture of French, Northwest native languages and English. This is an extensive site with grammar, vocabulary, history, news articles and maps.
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