• 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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  • 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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    1970s, having by then mixed extensively with other groups. Language is now extinct. Chinook Jargon also flourished from 1790s–1830s, then experienced a flood...
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    Mount Pilchuck (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    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 a combination...
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    Clatsop (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    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'...
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  • 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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  • 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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    Pacific coasts have primarily American Indian communities, such as the Chinook, Lummi, and Salish. Urban Indian communities formed by the U.S. Bureau...
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  • Chinookan languages, small family of languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples Chinook Jargon, a language originating...
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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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  • 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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    LaPerm (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    Omaste Po of Quincunx, lilac tortie & white LH LaPerm "Chinook Jargon Phrasebook - Ikt Chinook Wawabook". fortlangley.ca. 24 May 2003. Retrieved 25 July...
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    Lake Washington (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    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...
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    Dawson Charlie (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    Dawson Charlie or K̲áa Goox̱ [qʰáː kuːχ] (c. 1865 – 26 December 1908) was a Canadian Tagish/Tlingit First Nation prospector and one of the co-discoverers...
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  • Chehalis is now extinct. However, it contributed to Chinook Jargon. For more information, see Salishan languages. This set index article includes a list of related...
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    nor Haida chask'w, but in fact replaced Lower Chinook hyas mowitch with the corresponding Chinook Jargon word moose from Massachusett, via English, having...
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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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    Lake Union (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    diminutive form of the name of Lake Washington, x̌ačuʔ. In Chinook Jargon, the trade language primarily used in the 19th century, it is called Tenas Chuck...
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  • known as Chinook proper), extinct (†) since the 1930s. Shoalwater was spoken in southwestern Washington around southern Willapa Bay. Chinook Jargon is partially...
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    Chin people (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    government used the compound term 'Chin-Kuki-Mizo' to group the Kukish language speaking people, and the Indian government inherited this nomenclature...
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    trade languages: Mixed languages: Franglais Chiac Michif Bungi Jargons: Chinook Wawa Haida Jargon Labrador Inuit Pidgin French Loucheux Jargon Nootka...
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  • Skookumchuck (category Chinook Jargon place names)
    Narrows List of Chinook Jargon placenames Chinook Jargon use by English-language speakers Phillips, Walter Shelley (1913). The Chinook Book: A Descriptive...
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    With God, all things are possible (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    motto. Its unofficial motto is Al-ki or Alki, meaning "bye and bye" in Chinook Jargon. "Boy Sponsors Motto". The War Cry. The Salvation Army. September 12...
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    List of U.S. state and territory mottos (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    most-used languages for state mottos, each used by 25 states and territories. Seven states and territories use another language, of which each language is only...
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  • subject of the clause. The Nuu-chah-nulth language contributed much of the vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon. It is thought that oceanic commerce and exchanges...
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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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    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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  • Jargon or technical language is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity. Jargon is normally employed in a particular...
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  • Same-sex marriage in Oregon (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    spirit power. The Takelma call them xawisa (pronounced [xaªwǐːsaª]). In Chinook Jargon, two-spirit people are called burdash (pronounced [ˈbʊɹdɑːʃ]). Its origin...
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    Powder River (Oregon) (category Articles containing Chinook jargon-language text)
    the powdery and sandy soil along the shores of the river, from the Chinook Jargon polalle illahe. It appears on Lewis and Clark's maps as Port-pel-lah...
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