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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

In other languages

  • الشينوك جارجون

    Arabic

  • çinuk ləhçəsi

    Azerbaijani

  • চিনুক জার্গন

    Bangla

  • চিনুক পরিভাষা
  • चीनूक् जार्गन्

    Bodo

  • чинукски

    Bosnian

  • жаргон чинуук

    Bulgarian

  • pidgin chinook

    Catalan

  • chinook žargon

    Croatian

  • činuk pidžin

    Czech

  • chinook

    Danish

  • Chinook jargon

    Dutch

  • Chinook-jargon
  • Ĉinuka piĝino

    Esperanto

  • tšinuki žargoon

    Estonian

  • Finnish

  • Chinook-jargon
  • Chinook

    French

  • chinook, jargon
  • jargon chinook
  • Chinook

    German

  • Chinook Wawa
  • Ιδιωματικά Σινούκ

    Greek

  • ચિનૂક જાર્ગન

    Gujarati

  • ניב צ'ינוק

    Hebrew

  • चिनूक जारगॉन

    Hindi

  • csinuk zsargon

    Hungarian

  • sínúk

    Icelandic

  • Jargon Chinook

    Indonesian

  • gergo chinook

    Italian

  • チヌーク混成語

    Japanese

  • ಚಿನೂಕ್ ಜಾರ್ಗೋನ್

    Kannada

  • چِنوٗک جارگَن

    Kashmiri

  • 치누크어와 영어 프랑스어의 혼성어

    Korean

  • ຊີນຸກຈາກອນ

    Lao

  • činuku žargons

    Latvian

  • činuk žargonas

    Lithuanian

  • жаргон чинук

    Macedonian

  • ചിനൂഗ്-ജാർഗൺ

    Malayalam

  • Ġargon taċ-Ċinuk

    Maltese

  • चिनूक जारगॉन

    Marathi

  • chinook

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • chinook

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • ଚିନୁକ୍ ଜାରଗାଁନ୍

    Odia

  • Lenga chinook wawa

    Piedmontese

  • żargon Chinook

    Polish

  • chinook jargon

    Portuguese

  • jargão chinook
  • jargon chinook

    Romanian

  • patuà chinook

    Romansh

  • чинук жаргон

    Russian

  • Чинукский жаргон
  • Чинукски

    Serbian

  • činucký žargón

    Slovak

  • činuški žargon

    Slovenian

  • jerga chinuk

    Spanish

  • Swedish

  • Chinook

    Swiss German

  • சினூக் ஜார்கான்

    Tamil

  • చినూక్ జార్గన్

    Telugu

  • ชินุกจาร์กอน

    Thai

  • Chinook Jargon

    Turkish

  • чинук жаргон

    Ukrainian

  • Biệt ngữ Chinook

    Vietnamese

URI

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

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