Planning: The Great Chinook Jargon dictionary (1st note)
In honour of the 15th anniversary of this website of mine today, let’s plan ahead!
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Gibbs 1863 on dialects in Chinuk Wawa
In my opinion, the best of the English-speaker-oriented Chinook Jargon guides in the frontier era may well have been George Gibbs’s “A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or Trade Language of Oregon“.
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I think we can add pípa-sàmən to the “general lower Columbia” (Central Dialect) lexicon
My 2023 post about “Bridge River paper salmon” is about the Northern Dialect.
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Ankati Kamlups Indyustrial Skul (1890-1978)
Good thing to use your Chinook Jargon knowledge on: Image credit: Parks Canada ANKATI KAMLUPS INDYUSTRIAL SKUL (1890-1978) Ayu tanas klaska chako iakwa kopa klunas 108 ilihi, kopa klunas 38 hlwima Sawash tilikom… Continue reading
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Do we really believe there was a Jargon phrase “lám pi tsə́qw”?
At least as early as his 1884 edition, John K Gill of Portland included in his Chinook Jargon dictionary an entry <lum-pe-chuck> ‘grog’.
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‘Not working’, ‘out of order’, ‘down’ = KAKSHIT
The word that also means ‘to be broken’ comes in handy in our modern tech age…
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HIRE A LINGUIST! What this atrocious housing development name tells us about the need for good Chinook Jargon dictionaries
Can you say HIRE A LINGUIST! in Chinook Jargon?
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1877, WA: A klootchman’s grave
I’m making note of this frontier-era news article not only for its casual use of Chinook Jargon (which every reader understood), but also to show that “fish Indians” was very common terminology.
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Is the -muləqan variant for ‘elk’ just Lower Chinookan?
Yup, for ‘elk’ in Lower Chinookan, Franz Boas documented both the -mulak root shape that gave us Chinook Jargon’s mulak, and also this:
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The 1st & 2nd CJ compound nouns ever documented?
There were compounds in “Nootka Jargon”; we find them at least as far back as <Tais frijoles> from José Mariano Mociño / Moziño in 1792, literally ‘chief beans’.
