naika wawa masi…for a record-setting year on ChinookJargon.com!
hayu masi!
Monthly Archive: December, 2025
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Letter from abroad, 2025…about a good place to eat in Kamloops!
Oh, the things you can do when you learn Chinook Jargon & install the Chinuk Pipa font!
Chinook Jargon in our lifetime: Tillicum Flour, made in BC
Chinook Jargon spotted on the loose…
Found some more info on “Doctor Tom from Vancouver Island”
I think there’s a reason the medicine man called Doctor Tom sang in Chinuk Wawa.
Why are ‘grandmothers’ Salish? Some musings
‘Grandmother’ in Chinook Jargon (chích), and its relatives in both Lower Chinookan and Lower Chehalis, may all come from Salish — even though Chinookan is considered unrelated to Salish.
Holiday roundup :)
I’ve been running this website for 14½ years, so I think I can box up some Chinook Jargon-related Christmas reading for you by Boxing Day of 2025!
Tlus Lanoel (happy holidays)!
Tlus Lanoel! ɬúsh nowél! Thanks to First Nations Tax Commission ikta mayka chaku-kəmtəks? Ikta maika chako-kumtuks? What have you learned? And, can you say it in Jargon?
Russell Wallace’s “Klatwa”
Lil’wat composer and recording artist Russell Wallace of BC posted this on his Facebook page the other day: Image lifted from Russell Wallace’s Facebook page, with appreciation Can you read it? It’s Northern… Continue reading
Many sides to ‘help’…and…did re-creolization at Grand Ronde regularize stress?
I intended to try making this very brief!
Suttles, “Musqueam Reference Grammar”, Part 6
Naika wawa masi kopa Paisley pi Mokwst Alex, for reminding me of a great book by a great anthropological linguist!