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shorthand Chinook
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.
See: Chinook shorthand
Quotations
1958
Somehow the Indians learned to read shorthand Chinook, much more quickly than ordinary writing. . . .