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ISO 639-3 · chnchn
unclassified · creole or pidgin
Chinook Jargon
Chinuk Wawa
Chinook Jargon is a creole or pidgin, spoken in United States and Canada. Wikidata counts about 1 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “pidgin language of northwest North America”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
chn- Glottocode
chin1272- Family
- unclassified
- EGIDS
- 9 Dormant
- UNESCO
- Critically endangered
- Wikipedia
- 23 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
2scripts
—levels in the tree
9EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Chinook Jargon · Chinuk Wawa |
|---|---|
| Also called | Chinook jargon, chinuk wawa, chinook wawa, wawa, chinook lelang |
| All speakers | 1 |
| Written in | Latin script, Duployan shorthand |
| Kind | creole or pidgin |
Vitality
EGIDS 9 Dormant9
Dormant or extinct. No fluent first-language speakers remain — EGIDS 9 and 10.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Critically endangered
Languages at this levelwhere it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in United States
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