Chinook Jargon

Chinook Jargon
chinuk wawa, chinook
𛰣𛱇‌𛰚𛱛𛰅 𛱜‌𛱜
Cover, Gill's Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon
Native toCanada, United States
RegionPacific Northwest (Interior and Coast): Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Northern California
Native speakers
1 (2013)[1]
Mainly Wakashan (Nootka Jargon), Chinookan, Salishan, and Indo-European (Germanic and Romance)
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 639-2chn
ISO 639-3chn
Glottologpidg1254  (pidgin)
chin1272  (creole)
ELPChinook 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.


  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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