<DIV id=RTEContent>Klahowya !</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On all maps describing the ethnic situation before the European colonization, the direct neighbors of the Lower Chinook appear to be two Salishan tribes: Chehalis at N and Tillamook (the Nehalem group) at S, and two Athapaskan tribes: Kwalhiokwa at NE and Clatskanie at SE.</DIV> <DIV>Chehalis has considerably influenced the Chinook Jargon. But I don't know about any single word of Athapaskan origin in CJ. Why this absence?</DIV> <DIV>The Nisqually dialect of Lushootseed has also influenced the CJ. But the Lower Chinook were separated from the Nisqually by the Kwalhiokwa. The later didn't have any contribution?</DIV> <DIV>Furthermore, among the CJ words of Salishan origin, none is from Tillamook. Again, why?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Hayu masie,</DIV> <DIV>Francisc</DIV><p>
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