Chinook shorthand

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a set of signs used for writing and printing Chinook Jargon, adapted about 1891 from a French (Duployé) system of shorthand and used as late as 1910.

Quotations

1958

[Caption] The column in Chinook jargon is repeated in phonetic Chinook shorthand, English, and in a French phonographic version.