Chinook Jargon
Chinook Jargon is a nearly extinct North American indigenous language.
| Chinook Jargon | |
|---|---|
| chinuk wawa, chinook π°£π±βπ°π±π° π±βπ± | |
 Cover, Gill's Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon | |
| Native to | Canada, United States |
| Region | Pacific Northwest (Interior and Coast): Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Northern California |
| Native speakers | 1 Β (2013)[1] |
| Language family | |
| Writing system | De facto Latin, historically Duployan; currently standardized IPA-based orthography |
| Official status | |
| Official language in | De facto in Pacific Northwest until about 1920 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | chn |
| ISO 639-3 | chn |
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The U.S. state of Washington uses the Chinook Jargon phrase Al-ki (English: "By and by") as its state motto.
Chinook Jargon Media
An example of the shorthand "Chinuk Pipa" writing system used in the Kamloops Wawa newspaper
This short article about theΒ United States can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.- β Grant, Anthony. Chinuk Wawa structure dataset. Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online (2013). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Retrieved October 22, 2023.