1880: Mica wake close!
In a small town, you’d better watch your behavior!
Monthly Archive: January, 2024
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1895: “Chinook Hymns” in Chinuk Pipa (Part 1: “An old song for Christmas = Ça bergers”)
There is so incredibly much Chinook Jargon written in the BC “Chinuk Pipa” alphabet that I still keep finding material I haven’t previously read!
1915: Jargon-talking parrot
Adding to our files on non-humans that could talk or understand Chinuk Wawa:
KUMTUKS.CA, a fantastic resource for learning Chinook Jargon!
A quick recommendation for you:
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 16: ‘to rest’)
Another word that we know as “typically Grand Ronde” (Oregon) was first documented at Shoalwater Bay, Washington…
Ballast Island’s enduring connections with Chinuk Wawa
The other day, I wrote about discovering another intertribal waterfront community, Ballast Island on the Seattle waterfront, that seemed to be consistently connected with Chinuk Wawa…
1900, Lake Chelan: “nayka hilu wawa ukuk hayas-kʰəltəs wawa!” 😂😁🤣
Guess which dialect of Chinuk Wawa they were talking in north-central Washington at the Turn of the Century?
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 6: Deciphering a newly found song)
Tune unknown, which may be a clue for us.
Northern-dialect CW interrogative “ikta”~”pus ikta” etc. ⇐ SW WA Salish?
Clause-initial pus ikta, pus kata, and pus kah (synonymous with plain ikta, kata, and kah ‘what?, how?, where?’) in northern-dialect Chinook Jargon as spoken by Salish people is probably influenced by how their Indigenous languages work.
“Spos” versus “pus” is old — but not oldest
A search through my website indicates I haven’t yet verbalized the following observations: