Are ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ ever Adjectives in Chinook Jargon?
Are ‘fast’ & ‘slow’ ever Adjectives in Chinuk Wawa? Nope.
Monthly Archive: August, 2025
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Back from vacation. 2nd reminder: Chinook Jargon Gathering @ Ft Langley BC, Sept 12-13!
Naika tloosh tilihum (my good friends),
Another Salish word, and more humor, in Northern Chinook Jargon
The Secwépemc word suptsín, ‘beard’, shows up in the Chinook Jargon newspaper!
Russians speaking Chinuk Wawa in Alaska
One of the persistent urban legends about Chinook Jargon has been that there are Russian words in it. Uh-uh.
1878, OR: How does “Chenook jargon” connect with Thomas Jefferson?
The American Naturalist of December 1878, page 825, makes the following novel connection.
1928: Edward Harper Thomas on CJ dictionaries
I’m not the biggest fan of his Chinook Jargon dictionary, although it was the first one that I ever got hold of…
1902, BC: Chinese Pidgin English + Chinook Jargon, again
Thanks to Alex Code, appropriately enough, for this item as well.
1860: The Abridgement — Chenook jargon — cussin’ — and back-translation
I don’t know why a title “The Abridgement” comes up online for this 750-page item; it’s one of those US government compendiums of reports from the various “Indian agents” and land surveyors.
Northern Chinook Jargon: Do “go” and “come” only encode destinations?
Cutting to the chase:
Sequim Press, Part 3 (06/10/1921): Jamestown S’Klallam and local Chinook Jargon
An engaging little series on a smalltown paper that ran untranslated Chinook Jargon pieces well past the frontier era.