Another Indigenous metaphor: ‘Afternoon’ in CW is from Chinookan
Chinuk Wawa’s southern dialect, as documented in the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation community, says láx̣w-sán (literally ~ ‘leaning-sun’) for ‘afternoon’.
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Hunting in the south, hunting in the north
One of the many ways that the southern and northern dialects of Chinuk Wawa differ is in how they talk about hunting.
‘Good enough’ for linguistics work :)
Another Chinuk Wawa structure that I propose comes from (Lower) Chinookan languages…
wík-íkta mákuk as a clue…a time capsule, even
Chinuk Wawa’s terminology for value in trade has puzzled me for a long time…
‘Full’ + Noun = ‘full of Noun’, from Lower Chinookan
The Chinuk Wawa way of saying ‘full of X’ is another structure that we can trace back to Chinookan.
2 generations apart, in 2 dialects
The summary first today: there are special words for that, but only in creolized Chinuk Wawa.
A Lower Chinookan source for Imperative ɬush (pus) X …
There may be a real interesting trend of Nootka Jargon words historically getting enlisted to loan-translate natively Chinookan grammatical patterns, in Chinuk Wawa…
1994: BP Harris’s arguments for a pre-contact Chinuk Wawa
[Updated several days after posting.] There’s an article by the late UVic linguist Barbara P. Harris, one of the co-founders of the Chinook Wawa Gathering that helped revitalize this language, that’s worth your… Continue reading
‘Not thus’ and such
Here’s a small collection of Chinuk Wawa expressions, some of which I do think, and some I don’t think, trace their lineage back to Lower Chinookan negations.
McArthur’s “Oregon Geographic Names” (part 4 of 8)
Part 4 of our mini-series on McArthur’s classic reference work about “Oregon Geographic Names”…