Feral Child: Oxana

[Donovan]

A lot of the nuts and bolts of Nell, linguistically speaking anyway, are factual to what happens to language in extreme isolation. There is an island in America where this sort of pidgining has happened but the name escapes me right this minute
I'll find it later on my comp but basically it's an island of former slaves Iirc who remained so cut off and isolated that over generations they developed a dialect no outsider can easily understand. Fascinating really. You can see it to a lesser extent in Jamaica, Haiti, and in deep backwoods hill people in the American Deep South.

The Gullah?

http://geography.about.com/od/culturalge...Gullah.htm

Yeah that's them. I posted a response to this yesterday but I must have phone-failed. These people are a living case study for assimilation, linguistics arcs and language fluidity due to their isolation and lack of outside influence. Fascinating if you're a wordnerd like me, for others maybe not so much.