The Chinookan languages were a small family of languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples. Although the last...

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...

Upper Chinook, endonym Kiksht, also known as Columbia Chinook, and Wasco-Wishram after its last surviving dialect, is a recently extinct language of the...

Chinookan languages, small family of languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples Chinook Jargon, a language originating...

discussing American Folklore, here he describes some "Chinook songs" and offers them in both the Chinook language and English translation. The "Native Legends...

The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people...

Lower Chinook is a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America. Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern...

as a dialect of Upper Chinook, or as Lower Chinook, but was mutually intelligible with neither. All of the Chinookan languages feature what Mithun (1999)...

The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family that was formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern...

The Chinook salmon /ʃɪˈnʊk/ (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon. Its common name is derived from the...

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: Wimahl or Wimal; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific...

sorted in alphabetical order by state or province. Chinook Jargon Chinook Jargon use by English Language speakers Owyhee Kanaka Skookumchuck Skookum Tillicum...

coastal Oregon of the Salish linguistic group. The name "Tillamook" is a Chinook language term meaning "people of [the village] Nekelim (or Nehalem)", sometimes...

generally translated as 'brave' or possibly 'good-hearted'. In the Chinook language, skookum is a verb auxiliary, used similarly to can or to be able....

Oregon, a city Hood River County, Oregon Hood River, a dialect of Upper Chinook language All pages with titles beginning with Hood River This disambiguation...

to refer to pidgins, and is found in the names of some pidgins, such as Chinook Jargon. In this context, linguists today use jargon to denote a particularly...

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

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...

is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved...

arrival. The young orca was initially called "Tokitae," which in the Chinook language means "Bright day, pretty colors". However, given the age difference...

Wishram Chinook language in the summer of 1905, funded by the Bureau of American Ethnology. This first experience with Native American languages in the...

Oregon Etymology Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Native name Netul (Chinook) Location Country United States State Oregon County Clatsop County...

shelves, kept the books, and cleaned the store; she later learned the Chinook language to wait on Native American customers. To keep customers during 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...

Native American tribe that had a village named Ne-co-tat (in their Chinook language) in this area. Indigenous peoples had long inhabited the coastal area...

An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...

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

The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...

common language. It was most notably in use during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and was likely one precursor to Chinook Wawa, in Chinook Wawa's...