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Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa or Chinook Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest.It spread during the 19th century from the lower Columbia River, first to other areas in modern Oregon and Washington, then to British Columbia and parts of Alaska, Northern California, Idaho and Montana.
Imprint of the Kamloops Wawa newspaper, November 1896 Introduction to Kamloops Wawa shorthand found in each issue. The Kamloops Wawa (Chinook Jargon: π° π±π°π°π±π°π° π±π± , "Talk of Kamloops") was a newspaper published by Father Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, superior of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada, beginning May 25, 1891, and ...
The Chinook writing, or Wawa shorthand, or Chinuk pipa, was developed by Father Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune in the early 1890s for writing in Chinook Jargon, Lillooet, Thompson, Okanagan, Latin, and English, with the intended purpose of bringing literacy and church teaching to the first nations in the Catholic Diocese of Kamloops.
Skookum is a Chinook Jargon word that has been in widespread historical use in British Columbia and the Yukon, [1] as well as the Pacific Northwest. It has a range of meanings, commonly associated with an English translation of strong or monstrous. The word can mean strong, [2] greatest, powerful, ultimate, or brave.
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The Chinookan languages are a small family of extinct languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples.Although the last known native speaker of any Chinookan language died in 2012, the 2009-2013 American Community Survey found 270 self-identified speakers of Upper Chinook.
A small number of words from NuuΔaanΜuΕ (formerly called the Nootka language, thus the English names of its pidgin) form an important portion of the lexical core of Chinook Wawa. This was true, both in Chinook Wawa's post-contact pidgin phase, and its latter creole form, and remains true in contemporary Chinuk Wawa language usage. [1]
Wawa (company), an American convenience store chain; Kamloops Wawa, a Canadian newspaper; Triplochiton scleroxylon, a tree; Water Authority of Western Australia; Wawa Hotel, a former resort hotel in Ontario, Canada; Wawa Pictures, a Singaporean production company "Wawa," a song performed by Lizzy Mercier Descloux; Wawa subprovince of the ...