CJ til-shel ‘husband’ = Lower Chehalis + Lower Chinookan
I preach the “linguistic archaeology” gospel…
I preach the “linguistic archaeology” gospel…
I’m very fond of the contemporary reports telling of the moment when Chinuk Wawa suddenly propagated into the British Columbia interior.
We now know of a total of 4 letters in Chinuk Wawa written by William “Willie” McCluskey of the Swinomish Indian Reservation in northwestern Washington State.
Another example of dead folks’ spirits speaking Chinuk Wawa…
The intersection of West Coast CPE (Chinese Pidgin English) and CJ (Chinook Jargon)…
hayu masi kʰapa Darrin Brager, man yaka kwanisəm nanich ukuk nayka t’wax̣-x̣umx̣um hom-iliʔi.
Curator T.P.O. Menzies of the Vancouver City Museum made a stunning “Chinuk Pipa” acquisition in 1938 that we need to follow up on…
A century ahead of their time!
Told by Q’ltí (Charles Cultee), the 1894 publication “Chinook Texts” preserves countless cultural treasures.
As Chinook Jargon scholarship steadily advances, we become ever more aware of what it implies that the major “Washington Territory” treaties with Native tribes having been worked out via that Indigenous-oriented language.