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...

Columbia River by Chinook peoples Chinook Jargon, a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest Lower Chinook, a Chinookan language...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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

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

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

Franglais Chiac Michif Bungi Jargons: Chinook Wawa Haida Jargon Labrador Inuit Pidgin French Loucheux Jargon Nootka Jargon Slavey Jargon Souriquois Algic languages:...

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...

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

Skookum is a Chinook Jargon word that has historical use in the Pacific Northwest. It has a range of meanings, commonly associated with an English translation...

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

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

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...

for writing English, German, Spanish, Romanian, Latin, Danish, and Chinook Jargon. The Duployan stenography is classified as a geometric, alphabetic stenography...

the iterative suffix -č) via Chinook Jargon. Salal (definition) from Chinook Trade Jargon [səˈlæl], from Lower Chinook salál. Saguaro (definition) via...

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'...

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

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...

Pacific coasts have primarily American Indian communities, such as the Chinook, Lummi, and Salish. Urban Indian communities formed by the U.S. Bureau...

The Kamloops Wawa (Chinook Jargon: 𛰅𛱁𛰙‌𛰆𛱛𛰂𛰜 𛱜‌𛱜‎, "Talk of Kamloops") was a newspaper published by Father Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, superior...

Chinook Jargon arose as a trading language incorporating both Chinookan and Wakashan vocabulary. Recent attempts to keep Chinook Jargon or Chinook Wawa...

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

English "wow." For the scores of BC placenames from the Chinook Jargon, see List of Chinook Jargon place names. Ahnuhati River: "where the humpback salmon...

the latter name was platted in 1845. The present name is derived from Chinook Jargon and means "waterfall". A post office called Tumwater was established...

snow until late in the summer. The name for the mountain comes from Chinook Jargon, a trade language widely used in the area in the 19th century. It is...

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...

salmon in North America. The English name "chum salmon" comes from the Chinook Jargon term tsəm, meaning "spotted" or "marked"; while keta in the scientific...