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Preferred term

chnChinook jargon  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Chinook Jargon (also known as chinuk wawa) originated as a pidgin trade language of the Pacific Northwest, and spread during the 19th century from the lower Columbia River, first to other areas in modern Oregon and Washington, then British Columbia and as far as Alaska, sometimes taking on characteristics of a creole language. It is related to, but not the same as, the aboriginal language of the Chinook people, upon which much of its vocabulary is based.

Entry terms

  • Chinook Jargon

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • chn

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • chn

ISO 639-3 code

  • chn

Notation

  • chn

In other languages

  • Chinook

    French

  • chinook, jargon
  • jargon chinook
  • Chinook

    German

  • Chinook Wawa
  • gergo chinook

    Italian

  • chinook jargon

    Portuguese

  • jargão chinook
  • jerga chinuk

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/chn

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