Central-dialect Chinook Jargon as a “pidgincreole”

Central-dialect Chinook Jargon as a “pidgincreole”

I’m really just putting up a Post-It note about a thought right here, not deeply defending it: Look, another pidgincreole! (Image credit: Yes Magazine) Chinook Jargon’s Central dialect (the oldest one, centered on the lower Columbia River), coexisting as it did in pidgin and creole versions, would seem to meet the definition of a “pidgincreole” — rather than just a “pidgin” or “creole” — as: a former pidgin that has become the main language of a…