Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 24: Signum Crucis and Pater Noster)
And now for some rare old Chinook Jargon texts!
Monthly Archive: November, 2024
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Swearing and “yes”
The “i” here in Chinuk Pipa spelling is northern-dialect “é” for ‘Yes’…
More Chinook Jargon court oaths: “Shamrocks on the Tanana”
“Shamrocks on the Tanana: Richard Geoghegan’s Alaska” by David Richardson was published by Cheechako Books in Snoqualmie, WA in 2009.
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, part 7B: Shaw’s “examples” 2nd installment
Page 3 of George Coombs Shaw’s northern-dialect dictionary of 1909 brings us another serving of full sentences to learn from.
“Chinook Spoken Here”
At the late Duane Pasco’s JayHawk Institute website, there’s a pretty great photo of him.
Is Yahooskin a part-Chinuk Wawa tribal name? Or, maybe from *wax̣puš-kni?
Is the tribe name “Yahooskin”, as in “The Yahooskin Tribe of Snake Indians“, from a language other than their own Northern Paiute, at least in part?
1885: The Indian Sign Language (William Philo Clark and Father Ravalli) — and “Chenook”
William Philo Clark (1845-1884) was a US Army officer who wrote a neat book, “The Indian Sign Language”, about that pidgin language of the Northern Plains…
1906: The tomanawis of Chief Cha-we-tsot
I had heard of Albert B Reagan (1871-1936) before, in my reading on Pacific Northwest cultures, but I hadn’t realized he was a relatively primitive anthropologist.
1894, southern BC: Klonas lazy, klonas halo!
Local readers understood the Chinook tag line on this letter to the editor in the early post-frontier era…
“ashnu”/”shenu” is definitely not a normal word!
I had thought the Northern-Dialect Chinook Jargon word ashnu ‘to kneel’ was an anomaly…