Mohawk Dutch
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Mohawk Dutch[1] is a now extinct Dutch-based creole language mainly spoken during the 17th century west of Albany, New York, by the Dutch colonists who mixed with the local population from the Mohawk nation.
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- ^ Mohawk Dutch: "A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times" By Jonathan Pearson,Junius Wilson MacMurray, Published 1883 by Munsell's Sons, Schenectady (N.Y.) Original from Harvard University, Digitized May 10, 2007. Quoting for ease in reference in citation, "The Dutch quoted in the foregoing was "Mohawk Dutch." In Father Jogucs time (1(543) there were eighteen different languages spoken at New York, presumably as many at Albany. A considerable number of the early settlers had Indian wives. (Domine Megapolensis says the Dutch are constantly running after the Mohawk women.) The children growing up with Indian relatives, among the tribes and with men speaking so great a variety of tongues built up a patois of their own, the " Mohawk Dutch;"many words met with in it defying the dictionary of the schools and yielding only to the explanation of very old men who had been familiar with this kind of Dutch and the Indian languages in their early youth. Many words are untranslatable save by the context," end quote. Available for download and "online reading" by "Google Book": http://books.google.com/books?id=7RQCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA388&lpg=PA388&dq=Mohawk+Dutch+&source=web&ots=6qM1K5xbX2&sig=V8JLrrJ1iB3-MY_NH_UoqWmmTHo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result the book is in the public domain.
