Chinook Based Pidgins and Creoles Natural Languages Linguistics
Chinook Based Pidgins and Creoles Natural Languages Linguistics
Chinook Based
Open to sites relating to Chinook Jargon, a contact language which began forming in the 18th Century between speakers of Nootka and Old Chinook, and the English and French, primarily for trading purposes.
There have not been native speakers of Chinook Jargon for generations, but isolated words remain in the modern Native lexicon, and a form of it is reported to be used on the Grand Ronde Reservation in Oregon, USA. With other endangered Native languages, a movement exists to preserve Chinook Jargon for cultural identity and enjoyment.
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- "Tenas Wawa" was a semimonthly newsletter about the Chinook Jargon- a mixture of French, Northwest native languages and English. This is an extensive site with grammar, vocabulary, history, news articles and maps.
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- A description of Chinook Jargon with definitions of a few sample words.
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- History-oriented website with a Chinook Jargon word-lookup tool, a directory of on-line Chinook Jargon dictionaries, and other Jargon-related resources.
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- Sample pages from the British Columbia newsletter, which was published between 1895 and 1923 in Chinook Jargon, English and French. Information about the University of Saskatchewan library's collection of many issues.
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- A complete reprint of: Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (161), A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or Trade Language of Oregon. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by George Gibbs. Washington: Smithsonian Institution: March, 1863.
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- An abridged version of Shaw's Chinook Jargon-English Dictionary.
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- An introduction to the Chinook Jargon, a trading pidgin comprised of Native American, English and French words used by the pioneers and Indians on the western frontier.
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- A complete reprint of "The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It--A Complete and Exhaustive Lexicon of the Oldest Trade Language of the American Continent by George C. Shaw. Rainier Printing Company, Inc., Seattle, 1909".
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