• Eskimo Trade Jargon was an Inuit pidgin used by the Mackenzie River Inuit as a trade language with the Athabaskan peoples to their south, such as the Gwich'in...
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  • Pidgin (redirect from Jargon (pidgin))
    Loucheux Jargon Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin Camtho Cameroonian Pidgin English (creolized) Cocoliche Chinook Jargon Duvle-Wano Pidgin Eskimo Trade Jargon Ewondo...
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    Jargon Delaware Jargon (also known as Pidgin Delaware) Eskimo Trade Jargon (also known as Herschel Island Eskimo Pidgin, Ship's Jargon) Greenlandic Pidgin...
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    today), Eskimo Trade Jargon (spoken by the Mackenzie River Inuit and the Athabaskan peoples to their South until at least 1909), Haida Jargon (spoken...
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    Language name Pidgin parent language(s) Extinction date Notes References Eskimo Trade Jargon Iñupiaq 20th century...
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  • collectively "Indians". The distinct people in the Arctic were called "Eskimos". Eskimo has declined in usage. When discussing broad groups of peoples, naming...
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    Labrador Eskimo Pidgin Hudson Strait Pidgin Eskimo (spoken from 1750–1850) Nootka Jargon (18th–19th centuries; later replaced by Chinook Jargon) Trader...
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  • List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    potlatch", with the iterative suffix -č) via Chinook Jargon. Salal (definition) from Chinook Trade Jargon [səˈlæl], from Lower Chinook salál. Saguaro (definition)...
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  • predicament. Aleut, Alutiiq, Sugpiaq, Russian, Pacific Eskimo, Unegkuhmiut, and Chugach Eskimo are among the terms that have been used to identify this...
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    traded as shadow foxes; pure white fur is usually sold to the end consumer as white fox, like that of the arctic fox. In the jargon of the fur trade industry...
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  • Labrador Inuit Pidgin French, also called Belle Isle Pidgin or Inuit French Jargon, was a French-lexified pidgin spoken between Breton and Basque fishermen...
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    /e/, which preserves the fourth proto-Eskimo vowel reconstructed as */ə/. In the other dialects, proto-Eskimo */e/ has merged with the closed front vowel...
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  • mock him. He tries to be cool by using current slang, particularly the jargon of hip-hop culture, but his friends constantly rebuke him, as do others...
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    contact, Chinook Jargon arose as a trading language incorporating both Chinookan and Wakashan vocabulary. Recent attempts to keep Chinook Jargon or Chinook...
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  • boundaries of the state. These can be divided into four separate families; the Eskimo–Aleut languages, Athabaskan, Haida, and Tsimshian. They all share similar...
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    Eastern Woodlands tribes Egushawa Enumclaw and Kapoonis Eskimo Eskimo–Aleut languages Eskimo kissing European colonization of the Americas French colonization...
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    since the 18th century, hearing Inuit used some form of sign language for trade and communication among various Inuit languages, a similar role to that...
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    elsewhere. See the article on Eskimo for more information on this word. The Inuit languages constitute a branch of the Eskimo–Aleut language family. They...
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    and the more distant Crow, among others. Central Alaskan Yup'ik is an Eskimo–Aleut language with 16,000 speakers, most of whom live in Alaska. The term...
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    tribes): Ancient Beringian Alaskan Athabaskans Ahtna Deg Hit'an Dena'ina Eskimo Eyak Gwich'in Haida Hän Holikachuk Koyukon Lower Tanana Tanacross Upper...
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  • in the 1990s with a series of TV ads involving people speaking slang or jargon, with the tagline "do you catch my drift?". In June 2011, McDonald's introduced...
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    unwanted goods via the Internet. Gabe the Dog – Gabe was a miniature American Eskimo dog owned by YouTube user gravycp. In January 2013, gravycp uploaded a short...
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    when speakers numbered only a few old men using it probably only as a trade jargon or secret language. "Hieroglyphic Luwian". LINGUIST List. Archived from...
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  • show was the phrase "F-A-B" as an equivalent to "Roger" (communications jargon indicating that a message has been received). The original lolly packaging...
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    Chinook Jargon Métis National Council Michif language Newfoundland Irish Red River Colony Scots language Scottish Gaelic Scottish Indian trade "Bungee:...
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  • Brown (1996). "Company Men with a Difference". Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 31...
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    language in its earliest form, would seem to utter a strange and unfamiliar jargon to ears accustomed to its more modern construction." βαρβαρίζω, Henry George...
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    kinship terminology are less evolved than societies based on agriculture and Eskimo kinship terminology. One of Boas's greatest accomplishments was to demonstrate...
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    which was hung with a banner reading "Clahowya Queenastenass", Chinook Jargon for "Welcome Queen's Child". The following day, the Marquess and Marchioness...
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  • ISBN 978-0-691-23569-1. "Eskimo | Definition, History, Culture, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. 28 April 2023. Kaplan, Lawrence. "Inuit or Eskimo: Which name to...
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