Chinook Jargon
a pidgin based largely on Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Lower Chinook, French, and English, once widely used as a lingua franca from Alaska to Oregon.
Origin of Chinook Jargon
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How to use Chinook Jargon in a sentence
The tribe is practically extinct, but the name survives in the trade language known as “Chinook Jargon.”
In the mean time Serge was talking to the natives in Chinook Jargon.
Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 | VariousNow and then when the Indian's sense of humour got the best of him he varied his Chinook Jargon with Wild shrieks of laughter.
Lady Luck | Hugh Wiley
British Dictionary definitions for Chinook Jargon
a pidgin language containing elements of Native American languages, English, and French: formerly used among fur traders and Indians on the NW coast of North America
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