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    The Chinookan languages were a small family of languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples. Although the last...
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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...
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  • Chinookan languages, small family of languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples Chinook Jargon, a language originating...
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  • Upper Chinook, endonym Kiksht, also known as Columbia Chinook, and Wasco-Wishram after its last surviving dialect, is a recently extinct language of the...
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    discussing American Folklore, here he describes some "Chinook songs" and offers them in both the Chinook language and English translation. The "Native Legends...
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    The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people...
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  • Lower Chinook is a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America. Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern...
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  • as a dialect of Upper Chinook, or as Lower Chinook, but was mutually intelligible with neither. All of the Chinookan languages feature what Mithun (1999)...
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    The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family that was formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern...
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    The Chinook salmon /ʃɪˈnʊk/ (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon. Its common name is derived from the...
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