Fine in the World
Walt Wolfram; Clare Dannenberg; Stanley Knick; Linda Oxendine
The University of North Carolina Press
2021
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Stripped of their ancestral languages generations ago, the Lumbee Indians of Robeson Count, North Carolina, carved out a unique dialect of English to maintain their linguistic identity. The story of Lumbee English is one of the most remarkable narratives of linguistic adaptability and cultural perseverance ever documented in the history of American English dialects.