History With Hilbert | What Was the Algonquin-Basque Pidgin? | Most Ambitious Linguistic Crossover? @historywithhilbert | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
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The Basque language is spoken by the Basque people of the Basque country, straddling the border of France and Spain. The Algonquian languages are a language family spoken by a variety of Native American tribes such as the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Blackfoot, and Mi'kmaq. So how on earth did speakers of these two languages meet and form a mixed language, a pidgin language, called Algonquin-Basque Pidgin? In this video find out the fascinating history of how this language came about, what it might have looked like and why it disappeared.

Blackbird in the Mi'kmaq Language:
youtube.com/watch?v=99-LoEkAA3w

0:00 - Intro to Creoles and Pidgins
2:58 - Intro to Algonquin-Basque Pidgin
4:55 - Brilliant Ad
6:11 - Basques in North America
7:34 - How Algonquin-Basque Pidgin Developed
9:10 - The Basque Influence
11:00 - Other Influences
12:33 - Phonological Influence of Mi'kmaq
16:00 - Morphology
16:48 - Iroquois Basque Etymology?
18:06 - Expansion of Algonquin-Basque Pidgin
23:06 - Why did Algonquin-Basque Pidgin Disappear?
25:25 - Algonquin-Basque Pidgin Lives On In Mi'kmaq
26:34 - Outro

Music Used:
Lost Frontier - Kevin MacLeod
Nightdreams - Kevin MacLeod
Loopster - Kevin MacLeod
Sunday Dub - Kevin MacLeod


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