• 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...
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    Chinook-speaking groups were once powerful in trade, before and during early European contact (Lewis & Clark), hence developed the Chinook Jargon –...
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  • pidgins and creole languages. For example, the Chinook Jargon was a pidgin. Although technical jargon's primary purpose is to aid technical communication...
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  • Pidgin (redirect from Jargon (pidgin))
    "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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Franglais Chiac Michif Bungi Jargons: Chinook Wawa Haida Jargon Labrador Inuit Pidgin French Loucheux Jargon Nootka Jargon Slavey Jargon Souriquois Algic languages:...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Columbia River by Chinook peoples Chinook Jargon, a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest Lower Chinook, a Chinookan language...
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  • 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...
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  • area and people of all different mother tongues and nationalities used Chinook Jargon (along with English and French) to communicate with each other. Until...
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    dorsal fin was collapsed completely to his left side. His name, in the Chinook Jargon of the Pacific Northwest, means "friends, relations, tribe, nation,...
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    Sierra Miwok, Chalon, Chemakum, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Chico, Chimariko, Chinook Jargon, Chippewa, Chitimacha, Chiwere, Chochenyo, Choctaw, Chukchansi, Coast...
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  • The following is a listing of placenames from the Chinook Jargon, generally from the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, the Canadian Yukon...
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    Chinook Jargon is a trade language and was once used throughout much of the Pacific Northwest. Many place names in the area come from the Chinook Jargon...
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  • Skookum (category Chinook Jargon)
    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...
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    for writing English, German, Spanish, Romanian, Latin, Danish, and Chinook Jargon. The Duployan stenography is classified as a geometric, alphabetic stenography...
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  • List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    the iterative suffix -č) via Chinook Jargon. Salal (definition) from Chinook Trade Jargon [səˈlæl], from Lower Chinook salál. Saguaro (definition) via...
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    Chinook Jargon arose as a trading language incorporating both Chinookan and Wakashan vocabulary. Recent attempts to keep Chinook Jargon or Chinook Wawa...
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    Quiggly hole (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    incorporated into Chinook Jargon as kickwillie. Kick willy, kickwillie, or keekwulee are the spelling variations of the Chinook Jargon word for "beneath"...
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    Kamloops Wawa (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    The Kamloops Wawa (Chinook Jargon: 𛰅𛱁𛰙‌𛰆𛱛𛰂𛰜 𛱜‌𛱜, "Talk of Kamloops") was a newspaper published by Father Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, superior...
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    Area Preserve in Washington state. "Mima" is a name derived from a Chinook Jargon term meaning "a little further along" or "downstream". Theories for...
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    salmon in North America. The English name "chum salmon" comes from the Chinook Jargon term tzum, meaning "spotted" or "marked"; while keta in the scientific...
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    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...
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  • Haida Jargon Chinook Jargon Medny Aleut language Thomas, Edward Harper (1935). Chinook: A History and Dictionary of the NorthWest Coast Trade Jargon: The...
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  • Americans began communicating using Chinook Jargon, the trade language that had developed earlier. The Chinook Jargon was widely spoken throughout the Northwest...
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    bridged the language barrier with an intertribal trade language called Chinook Jargon. Today, the majority is of the opinion that the tribal term "Cowlitz"...
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    Sahaptian -tan ending, is the main word for "horse" or "pony" in the Chinook Jargon, although cayuse or cayoosh was also used in some areas. "The little...
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  • 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...
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