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Chinook Jargon
Chinook Jargon (also known as chinuk wawa, or chinook wawa) is a revived American indigenous language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest, and spreading during the 19th century from the lower Columbia River, first to other areas in modern Oregon and Washington, then British Columbia and as far as Alaska and Yukon Territory, sometimes taking on characteristics of a creole language.
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Chinookan peoples
Chinookan peoples include several groups of indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages.
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Columbia River
The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
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ISO 639-3
ISO 639-3:2007, Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages, is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series.
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Kathlamet language
Kathlamet was a Chinookan language that was spoken around the border of Washington and Oregon by the Kathlamet people.
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.
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Lower Chinook
Lower Chinook is a dialect of the Chinook spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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Marianne Mithun
Marianne Mithun is an American linguist specializing in American Indian languages and language typology.
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Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.
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Penutian languages
Penutian is a proposed grouping of language families that includes many Native American languages of western North America, predominantly spoken at one time in Washington, Oregon, and California.
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Upper Chinook language
Upper Chinook, also known as Kiksht, Columbia Chinook, and Wasco-Wishram after its last surviving dialect, is a recently extinct language of the US Pacific Northwest.
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Variety (linguistics)
In sociolinguistics a variety, also called a lect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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