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The Birth of Christ, in Chinook Jargon (part 7)

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(Back to: Part 1.  Part 2.  Part 3.  Part 4.  Part 5.  Part 6.) <Ch. 7. The Magi.> Tlun taii shako nanish ShK. Three chiefs visit Jesus.        <1.> Wik lili pi… Continue reading →

The Birth of Christ, in Chinook Jargon (part 6)

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(View & hear Dale McCreery reading parts 1-6 aloud!) (Back to: Part 1.  Part 2.  Part 3.  Part 4.  Part 5.) Wach man kopa lamuto. The guards over the sheep.      … Continue reading →

The Birth of Christ, in Chinook Jargon (part 5)

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(View & hear Dale McCreery reading parts 1-6 aloud!)  (Back to: Part 1.  Part 2.  Part 3.  Part 4.)             ShK chako tanas. Jesus is born.    … Continue reading →

The Birth of Christ, in Chinook Jargon (part 4)

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(View & hear Dale McCreery reading parts 1-6 aloud!) (Back to: Part 1.  Part 2.  Part 3.) the Baptist.> SShB shako tanas. John the Baptist is born. Iaka k’o iaka son pus There… Continue reading →

The Birth of Christ, in Chinook Jargon (part 3)

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(View & hear Dale McCreery reading parts 1-6 aloud!) (Back to: Part 1.  Part 2.) Mari klatwa nanish iaka kosin Ilisabit. Mary goes to visit her cousin Elizabeth.       Lisash kilapai… Continue reading →

The Birth of Christ, in Chinook Jargon (part 2)

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(View & hear Dale McCreery reading parts 1-6 aloud!)  (Back to Part 1) With the stage set by Zacharias’ vision and Elizabeth’s pregnancy with the future John the Baptist, Joseph and Mary come… Continue reading →

The Birth of Christ, in Chinook Jargon (part 1)

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(View & hear Dale McCreery reading parts 1-6 aloud!) The Christmas story from the New Testament, told in a condensed form by a 19th-century priest, for your enlightenment. Lisash shako wawa kopa SShB… Continue reading →

Stim i Krismas?

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Stim i Krismas? From a religious catechism in the Nsyilxcən or Okanagan-Colville Salish language of southern interior British Columbia and northeast Washington state: <14.> Stim i Krismas? = Krismas <14.>  What is Christmas?… Continue reading →

First-Class Hardware Store ad, 1902

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In Chinook, his name is Jim, not James.  Yup, it’s a street language 🙂 I don’t always get so technical here, but partly because I have linguists reading my site, today I will… Continue reading →

The words of old Eliza Quinaby of Grand Ronde reservation

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For its respectful and/or restrained treatment of an elder, and for its antiquity, I’m pleased with the following find of early rez-period Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa. (Explanation: the S-word is used here, but it’s… Continue reading →