Daily Archive: December 16, 2024

A, I, O and sometimes Y: Even more about writing PNW indigenous words weird

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I’ve found even more examples supporting my observation that old-time spellings of Chinook Jargon words often wrote < i > (or < y >) when they meant [á].

Some broad ideas about “Tenino”

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The Umatilla Sahaptin dictionary is a treasure.