The “AnKati Naika Tikki Whiski” song is a great way to learn “silent IT”!

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As sung by Skokomish elder Henry Ruben Allen (1864-1956) several decades ago, this song quickly teaches you how to use “silent IT”. (Symbolized by Ø here.)

1906 [1866], WA: It took a party to get Chief Seattle to talk Chinook

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A party held in an early Seattler’s Settler’s home on January 16, 1866 was well remembered 40 years after!

Talking about Chinook Jargon in Halq’emeylem

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From Stó:lō Coast Salish country:

“Dilate nika ou”

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(Dedicated to Paul.) You know who I appreciate? My readers!

“Kyimta” and more, in a Northern Dialect text

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Thanks to Professor Peter Bakker for an email in 2022 that got me thinking in a new way about a seldom-researched Chinook Jargon book…

Kamloops’ JMR Le Jeune’s letters to the inventor of Duployé shorthand (Part 3)

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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

New UBC History honours thesis: “naika mamook-kumtuks mesaika/I will teach you”

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Congratulations to Agostino Pizzolato!

1906, WA: Another version of Mose Freeland’s Chinook restauarant menu

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Neat stuff, definitely Northern Dialect.

Is patl (pʰáɬ) ever used attributively?

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Patl “full (of)” is almost always immediately followed by a Noun telling what something (or someone) is full of. 

1907 BC ad in Chinook Jargon: Chechacos and hyas snow and failed exocentric phrases!

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We’ve seen a number of ads that used Chinook Jargon. Image credit: Redbubble Also advertisements 🙂 Here’s more, thanks to our reader Alex Code. CHECHACOS and HYAS SNOW (Newcomer)         … Continue reading