Chinook Jargon. Chinook Jargon. Chinook Jargon is a trade language that was used extensivelyin the nineteenth century and first part of the twentieth centuryfor communication between Europeans and First Nations people inmuch of the Pacific Northwest, including British Columbia. Chinook Jargon should not be confused with Chinook, which is the ...

13/04/2003 · Many of the French gradually left the fur companies and took up farming in the Willamette Valley, among other trades. Marriage with native women from far and near was common and communities were formed in which there was no common language other than “Chinook Jargon.” The first language of these children was “Chinook.” By the 1840s there …

Chinook Jargon was a pidgin language--and possibly even a creole--that was created consciously out of the necessity to communicate among a wide variety of interested groups with a diverse linguistic backgrounds. ... [CJ] is esentially Subject-Verb- Object or Indo-European, while the typical structure of the local languages is Verb-Subject. By ...

Chinook-speaking groups were once powerful in trade, before and during early European contact (Lewis & Clark), hence developed the Chinook Jargon – a pre-European contact language, with lexicon from at least Chinook, Chehalis, and Nootka or Nuu-chah-nulth.

are clearly not Portuguese-based, or even Indo-European-based, such as the Eskimo pidgin across the Arctic from Bering Straight to Greenland, the Mobilian trade language, or the pidgin we are discussing here, Chinook Jargon. 2. Polygenesis. The polygenetic theory, on the other hand, says that pidgins arise out of communicative necessity as, when and where

Olo muckamuck - to be hungry. Hyas muckamuck - feast, big meal. Hiyu muckamuck - lots of food. High muckamuck - bigshot, one who sits at the head table, corruption of hiyu/hyas muckamuck - (somebody) with lots of food.