“Old” varies by dialect
Going from North to South through the 3 dialects I recognize in Chinook Jargon…
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Muskrats, and the good and bad of El Comancho
Thanks to a comment from nenamooks on another post here at my site…
“lost” from Joe Peter, repeatedly, has implications that aren’t lost on us
Lost is a word of Chinook Jargon not only in the Northern Dialect (where it’s quite widely used), but also the older Central Dialect.
Great reasons to pop in to Chinook Jargon on Zoom, #2
People helping people: “Indians fishing, Sand Island, Chinook. J. F. Ford photo” (image credit: Oregon History Project) Great discussions with people of at a wide range of skills, who all like helping each… Continue reading
St Onge’s kopet tai ‘abdicate’: stative-verb implications for kopet- in Central Dialect
Two lonesome forms in Louis-Napoleon St Onge’s handwritten dictionary, which I found in an archive back East several years ago, suggest the interesting possibility of a uniquely Central Dialect feature.
Kamloops’ JMR Le Jeune’s letters to the inventor of Duployé shorthand (Part 2)
In the 1893 book “La sténographie en France“, which is mostly in French shorthand, the inventor thereof, Émile Duployé, reports years of contact with Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, who is famous to us as… Continue reading
“Jib boom” and another Indigenous metaphor
Does mokison nos mean “jib boom” in Chinuk Wawa?
Another new Northern Chinook Jargon song by Chief William Wasden
Folks have recommended Waxqwidi William Wasden to me for years; here’s a sample of why.
“Multnomah” as another part-Salish word?
I’ve been pondering the well-known word Multnomah, as in the Multnomah Chinookan people, Multnomah Falls, and Multnomah County, Oregon.
Actively wrinkling Southern Dialect full-word reduplication
Time to update a post I wrote years ago, adding an insightful wrinkle.