Body parts in Northern Chinook Jargon (versus other dialects)
The big pattern that I like to teach to folks is that —
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Suttles, “Musqueam Reference Grammar”, Part 8
Naika wawa masi kopa Paisley pi Mokwst Alex, for reminding me of a great book by a great anthropological linguist!
French expressions that remind me of Chinook Jargon (Part 1)
I do a good deal of research work on Father JMR Le Jeune’s notebooks.
2 crowdsourcing challenges, 1918+1921, WA: A musical stage play in Chinook Jargon “Wah-Mah-Whah-Lah” + a postcard
The Spring 2013 issue of the magazine Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History had a neat article about someone we’ve gotten to know pretty well from the Chinook Jargon side of her life…
Hey linguistics students: research X-tə́mtəm expressions, please!
Looking for a research paper idea?
Still another pidginized Secwépemc word in Northern Chinook Jargon: sishinim ‘singing’
Naika wawa masi kopa Pir Lio!
Undercover with ípsət
What hidden history might there still be to uncover about Chinuk Wawa’s ípsət (‘hide; cover; secretly’)?
Central and Southern Chinook Jargon have a definite article “uk=”…but why isn’t it “lə=”?
This I find to be a nifty question.
And a bit more about ‘owls’: Sahaptian
I’ve noted that the Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa word for an ‘owl’, pʰupʰúp, traces back to not only a K’alapuyan-language word (‘northern pygmy owl’) but also to southwest Oregon’s Takelma (‘screech owl’).
Another pidgin: the Lingua Franca
I’m writing about yet another pidgin language, the famous Lingua Franca, here…