The language of the city, Anopa, is a slightly altered version of the real Mobilian Trade Jargon. In our history, this was a lingua franca used up and down the Mississippi and across the wider southeast of the continent to allow speakers of the Muskogean family of languages, like Chickasaw and Choctaw and Creek, to talk to their neighboring peoples, and then later to French and Spanish and English speakers. The last people to be familiar with it were elderly Native Americans in Louisiana in the 1980s. In the timeline of Cahokia Jazz however it evolved and expanded as pidgins do, to become
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