Suttles, “Musqueam Reference Grammar”, Part 9: It took a while for Jargon to reach north…
Naika wawa masi kopa Paisley pi Mokwst Alex, for reminding me of a great book by a great anthropological linguist!
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The low-down on a couple of differences between the dialects
Here’s a low-down difference between the dialects of Chinuk Wawa that can be very prominent sometimes…
How to comment on someone’s roguish habits in Chinook Jargon
(I’m not talking about the Rogue Rivers 😊) Why, we were just talking about this Chinook Jargon trick last night!
Re-creolization + re-Métis-ization in the Grand Ronde reservation community
POINT #1: The earlier form of the word for “tongue” and “language” appears to have been the Central Dialect’s lalak.
South-North dialect difference: How to express “of/to” in “afraid of/to”
Getting around to writing this long-planned post the day after a “Joe Peter” group transcription session where the point came up…
mama, papa: shifting etymologies
Just making sure I park this observation somewhere in public.
Respected elder Dr Louis Miranda tells you what Northern Chinook Jargon is like (Part 1: tl’ap)
From the Youtube video “Louis Miranda: Squamish elder teaches Chinook Jargon“.
PS: some Chinuk Wawa dialects have “exterior-heads”
Is your head outside of your body? Talkin’ about exocentric compounds!
A modest proposal: ínatay for ‘against’, ‘contrary’, etc.
Not my idea. Thanks to Louis-Napoléon St Onge.