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Chinook Jargon is a nearly extinct North American indigenous language.
| Chinook Jargon | |
|---|---|
| chinuk wawa, chinook 𛰣𛱇𛰚𛱛𛰅 𛱜𛱜 | |
 Cover, Gill's Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon | |
| Native to | Canada, United States |
| Region | Pacific Northwest (Interior and Coast): Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Northern California |
Native speakers | 1 (2013)[1] |
| 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 639-2 | chn |
| ISO 639-3 | chn |
| Glottolog | pidg1254 (pidgin)chin1272 (creole) |
| ELP | Chinook Wawa |
 Chinook Jargon is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
The U.S. state of Washington uses the Chinook Jargon phrase Al-ki (English: "By and by") as its state motto.
This short article about the United States can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.- ↑ 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.