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Definition of Chemakum
1. Noun. A Chemakuan language spoken by the Chemakum.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemakum
Literary usage of Chemakum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1888)
"It is somewhat singular that of the six languages of this region which I have
studied somewhat, namely the Twana, Clallam, Nisqually, Chemakum and Upper and ..."
2. The American Antiquarian by Stephen Denison Peet (1878)
"At one time I was travelling with a large number of Twana Indians, one of them
being a woman of the Chemakum tribe who was married to a Twana man. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"He furnished collections of words, phrases, and sentences to the Smithsonian
Institution in Chemakum (1878), Clallam (1878), Twana (1878), ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"The southern group of languages—the Kwakiutl, Salish, and Chemakum (which last is
... Salish, Chemakum, in the whole southern portion of the Province, ..."
5. Memoirs of the International Congress of Anthropology by Charles Staniland Wake (1894)
"The Chemakum has also pronominal gender. The amplification of the stem for the
purpose of forming distribution takes peculiar forms which are not found in ..."
6. Chief Sealth by Frank Carlson (1903)
"... who occupied both sides of Hood's Canal, and against the Chemakum on the
northwest, who were encroaching upon his territory around the Old- Man-House. ..."
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