Chinook Jargon

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Arctic Origin and Domestic Development of Chinook Jargon

Alternate Title
International Tromsø Symposium on Language ; 9th, 1992
Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages
Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs ; 88
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Author/Creator
William J. Samarin

Looks at characteristics of the population that would have found the mixed language useful and how it developed through marriages between traders and Indigenous women. 

Chapter from: Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr and Ingvild Broch

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The Chinook Jargon

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Myron Eells
American Anthropologist, vol. 7, July 1894, pp. 300-312
Comments on the complexity of the language due to variances spoken in different locations.
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Chinook Jargon

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Author/Creator
Sarah Thomason
Comments on a language which flourished during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
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The Chinook Jargon, Past and Present

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rena V. Grant
California Folklore Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, October 1944, pp. 259-276
Looks at how the Chinook Jargon developed into international speech among the people of Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska.
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A Chinook Jargon to English Glossary

Alternate Title
Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon
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Author/Creator
Chris Wilmore
Thomas Napier Hibben

Adapted from the Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon by Thomas Napier Hibben, published in 1877.

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Chinook Rudiments, No. 1739

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First two pages gives list of Kamloops Wawa citations and related texts which include information about the history of Chinook jargon. Preface quotes from the history of Chinook jargon as described in James Constantine Pilling's "Bibliography of the Chinookan Languages." Phonetic Alphabet; Pronunciation. Chinook Rudiments: I. Numerals; II. Adjectives; III. Pronouns; IV. Verbs; V. Adverbs; VI. Ononmatopaeia. Remarks - Chinook Vocabulary: 1. The 163 original words; 2. Other Chinook Words; 3. H. B. French words; 4. Religious words; 5. Common English Words; 6.
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Chinook Songs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Franz Boas
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 1, no. 3, October-December 1888, pp. 220-226

Lyrics in Chinook Jargon, a synthesis of English, French, Chinook (proper), Nutka (Nootka) and Sahaptin.

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Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: Indian Trade Language of the North Pacific Coast

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Hibben's Guide to British Columbia
Guide to the Province of British Columbia for 1877-8: Completed from the Latest and Most Authentic ...
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Lexicon of Chinook-English and English-Chinook for a mixed trade language spoken in the Pacific Northwest. 

Chapter from Guide to the Province of British Columbia for 1877-8.

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A Primer on the Chinook Jargon

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There Was a Time ... presents
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Author/Creator
John Salicco
Provides enough material on the language to understand and converse at a basic level.
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Tenas Wawa: The Chinook Jargon Voice

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Author/Creator
Duane Pasco

Website includes links to: brief history of Jargon, dictionaries, origins and evolution, all episodes of the Moola John Saga, a fictional saga.

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