I intended to try making this very brief!

Naika wawa masi kopa Paisley pi Mokwst Alex, for reminding me of a great book by a great anthropological linguist!

A number of the French-sourced words, or variant forms thereof, in Louis-Napoléon St Onge’s manuscript are known to have been preserved in other Pacific NW languages, but have not previously turned up in… Continue reading →

Gee, another item in the “I Thought I Already Blogged That” Department!

I was writing the other day about how Chinuk Wawa is able to do this weird thing of inflecting an interjection!

I had an extra reason to be glad I came to the Joe Peter group this week on Discord*!

I’ve commented on how cool it is to learn how speakers of various languages have mentally translated Chinuk Wawa for their own uses.

Naika wawa masi kopa Paisley pi Mokwst Alex, for reminding me of a great book by a great anthropological linguist!

Many thanks to reader Alex Code for spotting this interesting old article…

Another valuable study from David L. Rozen (who documented some Chinook Jargon songs of Vancouver Island) is…