How to comment on someone’s roguish habits in Chinook Jargon
(I’m not talking about the Rogue Rivers š) Why, we were just talking about this Chinook Jargon trick last night!
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Re-creolization + re-MeĢtis-ization in the Grand Ronde reservation community
POINT #1: The earlier form of the word for “tongue” and “language” appears to have been the Central Dialect’s lalak.
South-North dialect difference: How to express “of/to” in “afraid of/to”
Getting around to writing this long-planned post the day after a “Joe Peter” group transcription session where the point came up…
mama, papa: shifting etymologies
Just making sure I park this observation somewhere in public.
Respected elder Dr Louis Miranda tells you what Northern Chinook Jargon is like (Part 1: tl’ap)
From the Youtube video “Louis Miranda: Squamish elder teaches Chinook Jargon“.
PS: some Chinuk Wawa dialects have “exterior-heads”
Is your head outside of your body? Talkin’ about exocentric compounds!
A modest proposal: iĢnatay for ‘against’, ‘contrary’, etc.
Not my idea. Thanks to Louis-NapoleĢon St Onge.
Hey Chinooker — what’s this?
[Editing 02/15 to give it away: these are all 10 of the Chinook-Peipa number symbols, from 1 to 0, in order! Dave Robertson] It’s extra-hard to figure out because there are a couple… Continue reading
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost legacy (Part 27B, the 10 commandments: don’t not learn Negative Imperatives!)
Yes, more good stuff for us to learn from. Here we have some very Catholic stuff.