Athapaskan & Chinook

[Francisc Czobor]

Klahowya !
   
  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.
  Chehalis has considerably influenced the Chinook Jargon. But I don't know about any single word of Athapaskan origin in CJ. Why this absence?
  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?
  Furthermore, among the CJ words of Salishan origin, none is from Tillamook. Again, why?
   
  Hayu masie,
  Francisc

		
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