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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon, by George Gibbs This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon Author: George Gibbs Release Date: April 20, 2005 [EBook #15672] Language: English and Chinook Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DICTIONARY OF THE CHINOOK *** Produced by David Starner, Richard Prairie and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. SHEA'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. XII. DICTIONARY OF THE CHINOOK JARGON, OR, TRADE LANGUAGE OF OREGON. BY GEORGE GIBBS. NEW YORK: CRAMOISY PRESS. 1863. PREFACE. Some years ago the Smithsonian Institution printed a small vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon, furnished by Dr. B.R. Mitchell, of the U.S. Navy, and prepared, as we afterwards learned, by Mr. Lionnet, a Catholic priest, for his own use while studying the language at Chinook Point. It was submitted by the Institution, for revision and preparation for the press, to the late Professor W.W. Turner. Although it received the critical examination of that distinguished philologist, and was of use in directing attention to the language, it was deficient in the number of words in use, contained many which did not properly belong to the Jargon, and did not give the sources from which the words were derived. Mr. Hale had previously given a vocabulary and account of this Jargon in his "Ethnography of the United States Exploring Expedition," which was noticed by Mr. Gallatin in the Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, vol. ii. He, however, fell into some errors in his derivation of the words, chiefly from ignoring the Chihalis element of the Jargon, and the number of words given by him amounted only to about two hun
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