Alphabetical Vocabulary of the Chinook Language
- ISBN-10
- 0404509932
- ISBN-13
- 9780404509934
- Category
- Foreign Language Study / Indigenous Languages of the Americas
- Pages
- 23
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1863
- Publisher
- AMS Press
- Author
- George Gibbs
Description
"The nation, or rather family, to which the generic name of Chinook has attached, formerly inhabited both banks of the Columbia River, from its mouth to the Grand Dalles ..." Pref. The tribes speaking the language were the Chinooks proper, the Wakiakums, Willopahs, Clatsops, Cathlamets and Cooniacs.
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