Chinook Jargon

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Chinook Jargon
chinuk wawa, chinook 𛰣𛱇‌𛰚𛱛𛰅 𛱜‌𛱜
Cover, Gill's Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon
Native to	Canada, United States
Region	Pacific Northwest (Interior and Coast): Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Northern California
Native speakers	1 (2013)
Language family	Mainly Wakashan (Nootka Jargon), Chinookan, Salishan, and Indo-European (Germanic and Romance)
Writing system	De facto Latin, historically Duployan; currently standardized IPA-based orthography
Official status
Official language in	De facto in Pacific Northwest until about 1920
Language codes
ISO 639-2	chn
ISO 639-3	chn
Glottolog	pidg1254  (pidgin) chin1272  (creole)
ELP	Chinook Wawa
Chinook Jargon is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Chinook Jargon is a nearly extinct North American indigenous language.

The U.S. state of Washington uses the Chinook Jargon phrase Al-ki (English: "By and by") as its state motto.

References

1. ↑ Grant, Anthony (2013). "Chinuk Wawa structure dataset". Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on January 14, 2018. Retrieved October 22, 2023.

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