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Inuktitut-English Pidgin

Inuktitut-English Pidgin was an Inuit pidgin used as a contact language in Quebec, Labrador, and neighboring areas of the eastern Arctic. It consisted of uninflected Inuktitut word stems arranged in an English SVO order. Thus for Inuit "I see you" was pidgin .

References

  • Marianne Mithun (2001) The Languages of Native North America, p 595