Culture lessons: Things Chinuk Wawa doesn’t do (Part 5, “ditransitive verb” behavior)
Have YOU noticed things the Jargon doesn’t do? Leave a comment, I can write an article about your idea!
Monthly Archive: August, 2023
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Chinuk Wawa in the news: The death of Tokitae
Did you notice Chinook Jargon in the national news the last few days?
1933: Premium on good stories as old timers gather in Similkameen
Once again many thanks to our friend Alex Code, for sharing another fun clipping from a newspaper that’s given us several of them.
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 13: ‘fire is out’)
Today we find the first printed occurrence of Chinuk Wawa’s word chxə́p ‘extinguished, out’.
1905 and 1912: Joe Pi(d)geon and “Cariboo Cowboy”
It’s nice, how often we can find more information about folks from the world of Kamloops Wawa.
About Chinook Jargon, in Finnish
In 2014, Tommi Tienpää published an article, “Chinook-Jargon: Kauppakielen Juuret ja Historia”…
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 3)
Our friend Dale McCreery PhD sometimes shares notes on his encounters with Chinook Jargon in his daily life in Bella Coola, British Columbia.
1897: The Pollydiem
This opinionated Washington state newspaper might not be so interesting, if it weren’t so rooted in the frontier era.
1903: “Capswallow” is again the charge
Smart aleck Eleck!
This week’s quiz at Lingoblog.dk!
Hop over to our sister blog, LingoBlog from Denmark, for a quiz that has a connection with Chinuk Wawa. When you’re there, you can scroll down for the English version of the question:… Continue reading