Chinook Jargon’s /yaka/ indicates pidginization from Chinookan /yax̣ka/

Chinook Jargon’s /yaka/ indicates pidginization from Chinookan /yax̣ka/

Now an ultra-short note. Image credit: How to Pronounce Chinook Jargon’s 3rd-person singular animate personal pronoun yaka ‘(s)he’ (and sometimes ‘they’) is a simplified version of its etymological source, Clatsop-Shoalwater Lower Chinookan yax̣ka. Because pidginization! Prove me wrong. ikta mayka chaku-kəmtəks? Ikta maika chako-kumtuks? What have you learned? And can you say it in Jargon?