Chinooks [noun]

Need I add that tum-tum in the Chinook jargon signifies the soul!

Having made friends, he told me in a mixture of broken English and Chinook some of the old folk lore of his tribe.

But few of them speak the English language fluently; they mostly talk French and Chinook jargon.

The idea expressed in English by the sentence I came to give it to her is rendered in Chinook by i-n-i-a-l-u-d-am.

Thus began and ended our first lesson in the Chinook jargon, and our first experience with a clam bake.

We took a lesson in Chinook, and by signs and words held conversation until a late hour.

In Chinook there is a more far-reaching concord between noun, whether subject or object, and verb.

In the Bantu languages, the principle of concord works very much as in Chinook.

You speak as if the Chinook were nearly as old as this lighthouse, yet I have never even heard her name before.

He alone, among the survivors of the Chinook, had brought a parcel of any sort from that ill-fated ship.