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Chinook jargon
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Chinook jargon, lingua franca lingua franca , an auxiliary language, generally of a hybrid and partially developed nature, that is employed over an extensive area by people speaking different and mutually unintelligible tongues in order to communicate with one another.
..... Click the link for more information.  of early traders on the Northwest Coast of the United States and Canada. It included Chinook, Nootka, English, and French words, with various borrowings.
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of Ottowa) has written both a study and an historical account of the creation and development of the Chinook Wawa language, a combination of languages from American Indians of the northwest and elements of French brought to them during fur trading activities.
Making Wawa; the genesis of Chinook jargon by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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