TRADE JARGON

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | 302 words | Copyright

TRADE JARGON, also trade language. A semi-technical term for a minimal language used by people with no common language, as a means of communication for trading purposes, such as Chinook Jargon and Trader Navajo in North America. Such languages do not generally stabilize and expand. See JARGON, PIDGIN.

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