Michif

[Larry Trask]

--On Sunday, July 8, 2001 4:17 pm -0500 Rick Mc Callister
<rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu> wrote:

>	 How does Michif compare to Chinook jargon?

Well, for one thing, Michif is a mother tongue, while Chinook Jargon never
was.

>	 I don't think Chinook Jargon was used as anything other than a
> trade language but I may be mistaken

I believe that is right.

Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
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