Mid-Columbia pidgin sub-dialect of Central dialect of Chinook Jargon: Part 1 ‘donkey’
When folks commented in the past that each locale had a slightly different Chinuk Wawa, they rarely specified what they were noticing.
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Hapi Nu Ya! And more.
Hapi Nu Ya!
The message on Chief Tumulth’s grave
Naika wawa masi kopa River Tumulth — I thank River Tumulth — for raising this in a comment at the Facebook “Chinook Jargon” group.
1914: LBDB’s “Chinook-English Songs”, part 10 of 15 “Ole Chuch Illahee”
I appreciate Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett calling a church a church. Does that mean the War on Churches is over?!
íktas from Salish (partly)??
A conversation in our Sunday Zoom session has given rise to this intriguing question:
Culture note: Why we don’t find a word for ‘hello’ in the Northern Dialect
In the Chinook Jargon dialect letters from the 1890s to about 1915 that I wrote my dissertation on, there’s no trace of a purely CJ word for ‘hello’*…
Crowdsourcing challenge: find “A Book of Songs” by Erskine Wood
Said to have been published in an edition of just 250 copies, Erskine Wood’s “A Book of Songs” contains some in Chinook Jargon. Can you find it?
Letter from abroad, 2025…about a good place to eat in Kamloops!
Oh, the things you can do when you learn Chinook Jargon & install the Chinuk Pipa font!
Chinook Jargon in our lifetime: Tillicum Flour, made in BC
Chinook Jargon spotted on the loose…