Chinook Jargon
trade language
['offensive tackle', 'chassignite', 'phased array', 'sanatana dharma', 'political coalition', 'ibf world championships', 'integrated development environment', 'lieutenancy area', 'animal fighting', 'winter olympian', 'funny animal', 'japanese garden', 'multiple rocket launcher', 'apc', 'binary', 'pseudoscience', 'bwf world championships', 'data network', 'emmy awards', 'stave church', 'overseas departments', 'fictional language', 'interchange station', 'handheld video game console', 'comic panel', 'science', 'stable nuclide', 'greek orthodox', 'missile', 'historic boundaries', 'insecticides', 'instruction set architecture', 'image file formats', 'academic library', 'unitary council', 'operating theater', 'digital camera', 'medical library', 'summer olympic games', 'eu institutions', 'kinship', 'anthologist', 'refugee camp', 'mail', 'internationaux de strasbourg', 'administrative centre', 'bus terminal', 'open championship', 'social science', 'constitutional monarchy', 'intelligent software assistant', 'magnesium oxide', 'ethnoreligious group', 'public policy schools', 'cranial nerves', 'pilgrimage', 'german concentration camps', 'novelist', 'bbs', 'nuclear disaster', 'unmanned air vehicle', 'bafta awards', 'cotton plantation', 'grand prix de belgique', 'reconnaissance aircraft', 'taxonomy', 'landeskirche', 'rural district', 'steam ship', 'commercial air transport', 'launch vehicle', 'caliphate', 'rutile', 'natural gas', 'salt', 'suburbicarian', 'martian meteorite', 'halt station', 'glacial lake', 'drainage basin', 'portable game', 'airline flights', 'madrasas', 'cylinder desk', 'overseas collectivities', 'digital rights management', 'optical telescope', 'winter sports', 'security service', 'cyclops', 'mobile payment', 'fairy tale', 'offshore wind farm', 'passenger ship', 'paleocontinents', 'public aquarium', 'exoplanet', 'three enclosures', 'biological tissue']
Chinook Jargon
Chinook Jargon (also known as chinuk wawa) originated as a pidgin trade language of the Pacific Northwest, and spread 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. It is related to, but not the same as, the aboriginal language of the Chinook people, upon which much of its vocabulary is based. Many words from Chinook Jargon remain in common use in the Western United States and British Columbia and the Yukon, in indigenous languages as well as regional English usage, to the point where most people are unaware the word was originally from the Jargon.[citation needed] The total number of Jargon words in published lexicons numbered only in the hundreds, and so it was easy to learn. It has its own grammatical system, but a very simple one that, like its word list, was easy to learn. The consonant 'r' is rare though existent in Chinook Jargon, and English and French loan words, such as 'rice' and 'merci', have changed in their adoption to the Jargon, to 'lice' and 'mahsie', respectively.