siʔaɬ (Chief Seattle’s) speeches to back-translate: Part 1 of 3
wəx̣t hayu masi kʰapa ukuk lalang-tayi Peter Bakker, yaka munk-kəmtəks nayka qʰa pus nanich ixt ɬush skul-pipa…
wəx̣t hayu masi kʰapa ukuk lalang-tayi Peter Bakker, yaka munk-kəmtəks nayka qʰa pus nanich ixt ɬush skul-pipa…
A smart & interesting question was asked the other day by Luke Etxeberria in the “Chinook Jargon” group on Facebook.
Here’s part 2 of 2 in our examination of a really neat historical document of early contact…
For another early-contact account of “Nootka” (and south-central Alaska), we have a superb edition of…
(Don’t read this unless you want to talk fluent Jargon.)
Chinook spellings unique to one person are the evergreen hallmark of honestly learned Jargon!
Huge thanks to my reader “Joe” for pointing this one out!
A well-received social event social event staged by the Yakima Commercial Club’s married male members for the benefit of everyone else included some laughable BS in Jargon.
Just another day at police court–with that other West Coast pidgin.
I think this particular book tells us more about how some Native people spoke some English with sailors by 1817…