Relating to or describing the Chimakum people, a Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, or their extinct language.
Derived from the ethnonym of the Chimakum people, indigenous to the Olympic Peninsula in present-day Washington State. The term preserves indigenous naming through English anthropological literature.
The Chimakum language was spoken for thousands of years in the Pacific Northwest and completely disappeared by the 1920s—it's a sobering reminder that entire ways of thinking and describing the world can vanish in a few generations!
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