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Notes on the Structure of Chinook Jargon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Melville Jacobs
Melville Jacobs*
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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Abstract

[This paper (read at the International Congress of Americanists, Hamburg, 1930) attempts to present the phonetics of Chinook Jargon as now spoken by a few natives, to treat the essential phenomena of its structure, and to exhibit a text accompanied by an analysis.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 8 , Issue 1-Part1 , March 1932 , pp. 27 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © 1932 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 An International Idiom. A Manual of the Oregon Trade Language, or ‘Chinook Jargon’. By Horatio Hale. London, 1890.