A weighty difference between southern and northern CW
The southern (early-creolized) dialect of Chinuk Wawa is just plain “heavier” than the northern (later, re-pidginized) dialect.
Monthly Archive: February, 2022
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And more about (the) venereal
Just recently I showed you that “Chinook” in a number of interior Pacific Northwest languages became the word for ‘venereal disease’.
“Exploring the Olympic Mountains…1878-1890”
Settlers considered much of Washington state unexplored wilderness until pretty recently.
1909: Skookum boots
Just putting this here.
1924: A late Victoria-style song is among the oldest Chinuk Wawa audio
“Hello Sweetheart”!
1891: Two identical letters
hayu masi to Robert Kyniston in the Facebook “Chinook Jargon” group for posting copies of these!
“The Book of a Thousand Tongues”
Senior Chinook Jargon scholar and Saturday Zoom group participant, Dr. Jay Powell, told us an interesting tidbit…
Adding the Métis back to Prunet 1990
Much appreciation to David Gene Lewis, PhD, for providing me a copy of Jean-François Prunet’s interesting article!
Why was syphilis called Chinook in the interior PNW?
While researching the etymology of the name “Chinook”(*), I happened upon a couple of occurrences of similar-sounding words in interior Pacific Northwest languages…
AF Chamberlain 1891 “Words of Algonkian Origin” — really Métis — in CW
dret hayuuu masi kʰapa shawash-iliʔi man ya kəmtəks hayu qʰata uk anqati shawash tilixam, Dr David G Lewis PhD (many many thanks to a Grand Ronde person who knows a lot about old-time… Continue reading