‘Flag’ in Tsimshian & hidden Chinook Jargon (and English) (and Salish)
Sometimes you spot one odd-looking thread sticking out, pull on it, and find it was an important part of the cloth.
Sometimes you spot one odd-looking thread sticking out, pull on it, and find it was an important part of the cloth.
Chinuk Wawa kept on making ‘babies’.
Chinook Jargon turns out to be very good at describing disasters and scaring listeners.
It gets worse…
If you’re looking for shocking news & amazing Chinuk Wawa reading practice, pick up a copy of Kamloops Wawa… Today we’ll start another mini-series that’s hard to look away from. The editor of Kamloops Wawa,… Continue reading
Stuff keeps turning up, somehow.
Time was when Chinuk Wawa got your fairly far in Northern California…
Does this tell us something about people’s perceptions of the Jargon as sometimes slippery?
In debunking a rumor that the missionary Sheldon Jackson had been murdered by Alaska Natives, we learn a huge linguistic reason why it’s preposterous.
As the “Clondyke” mania raged, a well-prepared goldrusher incidentally stopping off at Metlakatla, Alaska was surprised Chinuk Wawa was useless there.