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Yama (the Mobilian trade language) is an indigenous language that developed in the South.
The trade language was used in vast trade networks from the southeastern coast to present-day Texas, and from Illinois to the Mississippi River Delta.
There is even evidence for its use as far north as among the Osage in the late eighteenth century.
The same trade language as spoken by the Mobilian Amerindians in what is now the area of Mobile Bay around the 1700s is the source of its confusing yet popular name, "Mobilian."
Other names besides Yama include: Anõpa ĩla, Mobilian Jargon, the Mobilian trade language.
Today, the Yama is on the verge of extinction.
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