Upper Chinook, endonym Kiksht, also known as Columbia Chinook, and Wasco-Wishram after its last surviving dialect, is a recently extinct language of the...

of any Chinookan language died in 2012, the 2009-2013 American Community Survey found 270 self-identified speakers of Upper Chinook. Chinookan consisted...

pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest Lower Chinook, a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River Upper Chinook language, a recently...

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...

discussing American Folklore, here he describes some "Chinook songs" and offers them in both the Chinook language and English translation. The "Native Legends...

Oregon, a city Hood River County, Oregon Hood River, a dialect of Upper Chinook language All pages with titles beginning with Hood River This disambiguation...

The Chinook salmon /ʃɪˈnʊk/ (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon. Its common name is derived from the...

The Chehalis language is a collective expression regarding two languages, Upper Chehalis language and Lower Chehalis language. Both are members of the...

name wapato comes from the Chinook Jargon word for an edible root, probably originally derived from the Upper Chinook language. As early as 1905, many Japanese...

classified as a dialect of Upper Chinook, or as Lower Chinook, but was mutually intelligible with neither. All of the Chinookan languages feature what Mithun...