Chinook Wawa
| Chinook Wawa | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Spoken in |
USA , Canada | |
| speaker | 1 (2013) | |
| Linguistic classification |
|
|
| Official status | ||
| Official language in | - | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
|
| ISO 639 -2 |
chn |
|
| ISO 639-3 |
chn |
|
Chinook Wawa , also Chinook jargon or Chinook Pidgin, was the lingua franca in the American-Canadian Pacific region.
It was mainly spoken in the 19th century along the coast from Oregon to Alaska and served as a language of trade .
The language is almost extinct.
See also
literature
- George Lang: Making Wawa. The Genesis of Chinook jargon. UBC Press, Vancouver et al. a. 2008, ISBN 978-0-7748-1526-0 .
- Charles Lillard , Terry Glavin : A Voice Great Within Us. The Story of Chinook (= Transmontanus , 7). New Star Books, Vancouver 1998, ISBN 0-921586-56-6 .
