Renamed Tumwater Middle School
“The renamed Tumwater Middle School in Portland, Oregon’s suburb of Beaverton honors the Chinuk Wawa language”, says the media headline.
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Be there, go there: get right on it
Among the countless facts of Chinuk Wawa that only become clear once you leave dictionaries behind…
Monster talk: A genderless use of yaka…
… and non-inanimate uses of both ikta ‘thing’ and “silent it”?!
2 kinds of ‘when’ in 2 dialects
And 2 polarities!
‘Sticks of pitch’ (pitch sticks?) vs. ‘pitchwood’
In one phrase of a story told by Victoria Howard, we have a beautiful illustration of the importance of “word order” in Chinuk Wawa.
“Sweet BetseyAnnSpikes” :) (Part 5 of 7)
It’s been weeks since I published the previous installment in this mini-series, but #5 is worth the wait:
Negated Characteristic wik-kəmtəks-
Now that I’ve gone and given you a complete list of expressions that Father St Onge’s 1892 manuscript dictionary shows for the < komtoks- > Habitual “Characteristic” prefix…
1913: Swiss immigrant talked Chinook
Early in the post-frontier era, an immigrant from Switzerland to BC was eulogized, in part for his experience of gold-rush Chinuk Wawa.
El Comancho’s Washington, DC newspaper column on Chinook Jargon (5 of 6)
This is the last regular installment of Walter Shelley “El Comancho” Phillips’s Chinook-for-kids column that I’ve managed to find.
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (part 2)
Lempfrit’s 1849 dictionary manuscript…a couple more pages…