Chinuk Wawa - Learn Body Parts

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Chinuk Wawa, is a hybrid lingua franca indigenous to the Pacific Northwest.
It is the heritage language of the Chinook Indian Nation and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.

A lingua franca is a mixture of multiple languages to allow people that don’t speak the same language to communicate.

Chinuk Wawa consists of several languages, but is mostly simplified Chinookan, some Nuuchahnulth, English and Canadian French.
The language originated on the lower Columbia River, where it once was the most common form of intertribal and interethnic communication.

Chinuk Wawa was spoken in all areas west of the Rockies from Northern California to Alaska.