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Labrador Inuit Pidgin French

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The first traces of Labrador Inuit Pidgin French (LIPF) first appear in 1694 though it is first fully first attested in the 1740's by a French Canadian entrepreneur named, Jean-Louis Fomel. He claimed the pidgin was made used by the Inuit and made up of a mix of French,
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The lexicon of LIPF was mostly French based but contained influence from Spanish,
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Arends, Jacques; Muysken, Pieter; Smith, Norval (1995).
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European-Canadian culture in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Index

Straits of Belle Isle
Language family
French Pidgin
Writing system
Latin Script
ISO 639-3
Glottolog
bell1264
French
pidgin
Breton
Basque
fishermen
Inuit
Labrador
Spanish
Breton
English
Dutch
Algonquian-Basque pidgin
NunatuKavut people
Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction
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