Mobilian
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The term Mobilian has various meanings:
- Mobilian jargon - An informal Native American trade language used among the tribes of the US Southeast, primarily along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. May have originally been the language of one particular tribe, such as the Choctaw.
- One of the Mississippian towns of Chief Tuskaloosa was the fortified town of Mauvila (also Maubila), which Hernando de Soto's Spanish expedition destroyed in 1540.[1] The tribe by this name later encountered by the French around Mobile Bay are theorized by scholars to be descended from this group of people.[1]
- The Mobilians were a Native American tribe present in the area of Mobile Bay in Alabama when the area was first settled by the French in the early 1700s.[1] The city of Mobile, Alabama was named after this tribe.[1]
- A resident of the city of Mobile, Alabama.[2]
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