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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.
Coastal "Chinook" is not pronounced shin-uk (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ n ʊ k /) as it is in the interior, east of the Cascades, but is in the original coastal pronunciation chin-uk (/ t ʃ ɪ ˈ n ʊ k /). [2] In British Columbia and other parts of the Pacific Northwest, the word Chinook was predominantly pronounced / tʃ ɪ ˈ n ʊ k / chi-NUUK.
more southerly Californian Kanaka placenames not necessarily Chinook in origin, could be direct into local English from Hawaiian Kanaka Bar " Siskiyou: CA: bar: Badger Mountain: 41.865°N: 122.726°W: Kanaka Bay " San Juan: WA: bay: False Bay: 48.485°N: 123.083°W: Kanaka Bluff " W tip Portland Island, off Swartz Bay: BC: bluff: False Bay: 48 ...
Chinook people were quickly diminished by European diseases: Numbered around 800 persons in 1800; they mixed with Chehalis (in fact, the very word Chinook is a Chehalis word for those who lived on the south of the river). Most of the language family became extinct as separate groups by 1900, except a few hundreds who mixed with other groups.
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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.
Skookumchuck (/ ˈ s k uː k ə m tʃ ʌ k /) is a Chinook Jargon term that is in common use in British Columbia English and occurs in Pacific Northwest English. Skookum means "strong" or "powerful", and "chuck" means water, so skookumchuck means "rapids" or "whitewater" (literally, "strong water"), or fresh, healthy water. [1]
Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages.Since at least 4000 BCE Chinookan peoples have resided along the upper and Middle Columbia River (Wimahl) ("Great River") from the river's gorge (near the present town of The Dalles, Oregon) downstream (west) to the river's mouth, and along adjacent ...