English edit

Etymology edit

From Chimariko chimar (person).

Noun edit

Chimariko pl (plural only)

  1. A tribe that lived in a canyon on the Trinity River in California until they were all but destroyed in the mid-1800s, at which point survivors fled and assimilated into the Hupa and Shasta tribes.

Proper noun edit

Chimariko

  1. The extinct language of this tribe, which is either a language isolate or perhaps Hokan.