Mobilian
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 Native American people with Chief Tuscaloosa in Alabama (circa 1540).
- A resident of the city of Mobile, Alabama.[1]
Other meanings
- Mobilian is also a wifi-tech company founded in 1999 in Oregon, USA, and acquired by Intel Corporation in November 2003.[citation needed]
- Mabila, Alibamu which is the origin of the term "Mobilian" and means the "Mabila" Indians who were members of the Alibamu tribe (the name Alibamu means "brush gatherers" in the Choctaw Indian language). Thus, when we combine the names Mabila and Alibamu we have "paddlers" and "brush gatherers" which seems very appropriate for the local Indians that paddled canoes and gathered brush and other items (such as Palmetto leaves) along rivers and streams for their villages.