Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa or Chinook Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific...

encountered the Chinook Tribe on the lower Columbia. The term "Chinook" also has a wider meaning in reference to the Chinook Jargon, which is based on...

throughout the Pacific Northwest, a pidgin language known as the Chinook Jargon (also rendered "Chinook Wawa") emerged in the early 19th century that was a combination...

The following is a listing of placenames from the Chinook Jargon, generally from the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, the Canadian Yukon...

"Pidgin". The term jargon has also been used to refer to pidgins, and is found in the names of some pidgins, such as Chinook Jargon. In this context, linguists...

predominant variety of Chinook Jargon spoken, and as such a single Chinook Jargon word might be borrowed from speakers of different Chinook Jargon dialects with...

incorporated into Chinook Jargon as kickwillie. Kick willy, kickwillie, or keekwulee are the spelling variations of the Chinook Jargon word for "beneath"...

pidgins and creole languages. For example, the Chinook Jargon was a pidgin. Although technical jargon's primary purpose is to aid technical communication...

Sierra Miwok, Chalon, Chemakum, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Chico, Chimariko, Chinook Jargon, Chippewa, Chitimacha, Chiwere, Chochenyo, Choctaw, Chukchansi, Coast...

Ellis Ryan (1860?–1934) used Chinook words and phrases in her writing.[citation needed] According to Nard Jones, Chinook Jargon was still in use in Seattle...

Haida Jargon Chinook Jargon Medny Aleut language Thomas, Edward Harper (1935). Chinook: A History and Dictionary of the NorthWest Coast Trade Jargon: The...

Chinook is a city in and the county seat of Blaine County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,185 at the 2020 census. Points of interest are...

Tillicum or Tilikum is a word in Chinook Jargon that means people, family, tribe, and relatives, and may refer to: Tilikum Crossing, a bridge in Portland...

used in Grand Ronde Jargon meaning "anything native or Indian"; by contrast, they consider siwash to be defamatory. The Chinook Jargon term for a native...

Chinook-speaking groups were once powerful in trade, before and during early European contact (Lewis & Clark), hence developed the Chinook Jargon –...

Skookum is a Chinook Jargon word that has been in widespread historical use in British Columbia and the Yukon, as well as the Pacific Northwest. It has...

area and people of all different mother tongues and nationalities used Chinook Jargon (along with English and French) to communicate with each other. Until...

dorsal fin was collapsed completely to his left side. His name, in the Chinook Jargon of the Pacific Northwest, means "friends, relations, tribe, nation,...

which has rooted its democracy in potlatch law. The word comes from the Chinook Jargon, meaning "to give away" or "a gift"; originally from the Nuu-chah-nulth...

entirely within the state. The name, Skookumchuck, is derived from Chinook Jargon meaning "strong water" or rapids. The river is home to an earthen embankment...

Columbia River. The Columbia River in Chinook is called imaɬ or iyagaytɬ imaɬ, 'great water'. In Chinook Jargon, it is called hayásh-tsəqʷ, 'great water'...

at Sitka National Historical Park. He was a speaker and expounder of Chinook Jargon. In the early 1990s he published the bi-monthly Tenas Wawa newsletter...

known as Haida Jargon, was used in the islands by speakers of English, Haida, Coast Tsimshian, and Heiltsuk. Nootka Jargon Chinook Jargon Medny Aleut language...

At-sar-kal in a map sketched by engineer Abiel W. Tinkham;: 10  and the Chinook Jargon name, Hyas Chuck ("great/large water"), was also used. Other English...

known as Chinook proper), extinct (†) since the 1930s. Shoalwater was spoken in southwestern Washington around southern Willapa Bay. Chinook Jargon is partially...

days in the Klondike. Chechahco, more commonly spelled cheechako, is a Chinook Jargon word for "newcomer", and the film focuses on a group of would-be prospectors...

Americans began communicating using Chinook Jargon, the trade language that had developed earlier. The Chinook Jargon was widely spoken throughout the Northwest...

English, German, Spanish, Romanian, Latin, Danish,[citation needed] and Chinook Jargon. The Duployan stenography is classified as a geometric, alphabetic stenography...

name is the Salishan and Chinook Jargon word for "berry" or "berries" (usually olallie or ollalie in most lexicons of the jargon). By the end of the 19th...

activity until mid-century, and the language of the Chinook nation of the lower Columbia river (Chinook jargon) formed the lingua franca between Indians and...