English-influenced Chinuk Wawa is not “acrolectal”
People whose Chinuk Wawa is fit onto English-language sentence frames, or drop lots of English into their Chinuk Wawa, shouldn’t be mistaken for “acrolectal” speakers. Let me demystify…
Monthly Archive: April, 2018
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Fictional Chinook Jargon isn’t always atrocious…
From the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Jane Austen Book Club”, some high-class fictional Chinook Jargon.
El Comancho’s “copo” is copacetic
The other day I mused about Chinuk Wawa dictionary writer WS “El Comancho” Phillips’s weird pronunciation-spelling of k’áynuɬ ‘tobacco’ as < chinoos >.
BACK.2 the Salish past?
Or a comedy of eras?
More early Chinuk Wawa grammaticalization: chaku-
One of the early and omnipresent grammatical formations in the Jargon seems Native in its inspiration, while it may reflect universal tendencies coming together also.
“Chinoos” for “tobacco”
I have questions, dear readers.
Cultus cod
You learn a lot when you think about who borrowed what…
Influence going the other way: Salish lexical suffixes FROM Chinuk Wawa
I think at least one lexical suffix each in Lower & Upper Chehalis comes from Chinuk Wawa.
Linguistic archaeology: half-dimes, Chinuk Wawa, and covert evidence
In Klallam Salish (north end of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, opposite Canada’s Vancouver Island), the word ɬčəx̣-mít means ‘nickel’.
Antedating “Chinook wind”…back to Chinuk Wawa?
One of those “I thought I’d already written about this” moments…