CHINOOK JARGON AS A BC ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE: The following is an argument I wrote up as a grad student, a few years back. It’s keenly relevant now, eh?
I’m putting up this post as I hit the road for Port Coquitlam, BC, where we’ll have the 2026 Chinook Jargon Gathering — Here’s how we can see each other there.
Okey-doke, I guess I’ve put the whole story into the headline up there!
From the 1902 “Chinook Book of Devotions throughout the Year“, page 74: Drit nsaika sik pi kikuli tomtom What do you make this mean? I’m curious for a reason. Leave a comment with… Continue reading →
To catch someone’s attention using their name, all dialects of Chinuk Wawa allow just hollering “Tony!” or “Paisley!” or whatever.
I feel lucky.
This struck my eye:
Which is which? (Image credit: The Hall of Einar) Kiksht Upper Chinookan is a language where you can call horses ‘birds’.
Here’s another advertisement in (Northern) Chinook Jargon.
Humans have the ability to imagine alternatives to how things actually occur.
Previously, in this space: ‘Labrador tea‘ {yes, that’s a link} has come up only in (other) Métis languages.
