mama, papa: shifting etymologies
Just making sure I park this observation somewhere in public.
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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: ínatay for ‘against’, ‘contrary’, etc.
Not my idea. Thanks to Louis-Napoléon 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.
Rounding out our thoughts on ’round’
Continuing our chronicle of “whole wheat” and Chinook Jargon as a Métis language:
Body parts in Northern Chinook Jargon (versus other dialects)
The big pattern that I like to teach to folks is that —
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!