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1779, Nootka (BC) et al.: Riobó confirms no Chinook Jargon yet

Summary by Chinook Jargon
“Relación del viage que hizo el P.P. Fr. Juan Riobó” is yet another firsthand source — this one unpublished — about the earliest contacts that happened between Indigenous people and Newcomers. Like other documents of its era, it shows us that there was no already-existing pidgin language encountered on the Northwest Coast. There was no easily learned way of communicating with folks whose native language you’d never encountered before. I was ha…
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Chinook Jargon broke the news in on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.
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