Does it mean "talk"???
The Siksika people speak:EnglishBlackfoot, also called Siksiká (ᓱᖽᐧᖿ), which is a Plains Algonquian language.
snow eater
Donald Frantz has written: 'Blackfoot dictionary of stems, roots, and affixes' -- subject(s): Dictionaries, Siksika language, Siksika, English language, English 'Toward a generative grammar of Blackfoot (with particular attention to selected stem formation processes)' -- subject(s): Grammar, Algonquian languages, Siksika language 'Blackfoot grammar' -- subject(s): Grammmar, Siksika language
Chinook people speak the Chinook Language. Chinuk Wawa is a daily spoken language. Chinook Jargon is a trade language that was used up and down the West Coast of North America
Chinook jargon was spoken from California to Alaska. It made it possible for many diverse people to communicate and carry out trade.
In the Siksika language (also known as Blackfoot), the word "Siksika" means "black foot".The name Siksiká comes from the Blackfoot words sik (black) and iká (foot), with a connector s between the two words.
They spoke their native Chinook language, which was a complicated language with many sounds that don't exist in English. This is why the Chinook "jargon" language was invented in order to communicate with the French and English-speaking traders.
Chinookan
Chinook
"Chinook" is a word in the Chehalis language that means "fish eater"
Today, Chinook people speak English. There are also less than 600 people who speak Chinook Jargon, which is a revived pidgin trade language.Historically, They spoke a set of languages called The Chinook Languages, which are all extinct.
S. F. Coombs has written: 'Dictionary of the Chinook jargon as spoken on Puget Sound and the Northwest' -- subject(s): Dictionaries, English, Indian Names, Chinook language, Chinook, English language, Chinook jargon