Website with curricular materials for Indigenous language learning: Chinuk Wawa language.
Also Known As:
Chinook Jargon, Chinook Pidgin, Chinuk Wawa, Jargon, činúk wáwa
Dialects & Varieties
- Grand Ronde
Recent Resources
Language Revitalization, Education, and Learning
Language and Technology
Language, Culture, and Arts
Language in Society
Language in the Community
An experimental documentary centered around the Chinook story of the origin of death, as two peop
Language, Culture, and Arts
Language Revitalization, Education, and Learning
Language in the Community
A short film by Sky Hopinka, exploring the connections between places in the Portland Metro area
Critically Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native Speakers Worldwide
Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
5
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Chinuk Wawa
Bibliography of Locations:
Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell. 2010. "Endangered Languages of the United States." In Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing, edited by Christopher Moseley. 108-130. UNESCO.
Bibliography of Context:
Chinuk Wawa