Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4M (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences: ‘where?’ and copulas)
The theme of today’s fluent Fort Vancouver-style sentences is asking ‘where?’…
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1894: Some Chinook song or other
An Oregon “grange” meeting featured dinner entertainment in Chinuk Wawa, just after the frontier era, not far from Grand Ronde.
“Less familiar words” in the Northern Dialect (Part 2A: Le Jeune 1924)
JMR Le Jeune published a pretty comprehensive dictionary of Northern Chinuk Wawa in 1924 (“Chinook Rudiments”), using both the Chinuk Pipa alphabet and the French/English “Roman” letters.
1922: “Chinook” and “rebuke” rhyme in this doggerel poem
Do you suppose Philander Johnson was a pen name?
Culture lessons: Things Chinuk Wawa doesn’t do (Part 6: say it!)
How come a lot of the “things Chinook Jargon doesn’t do” come down to differences between this language and English?
1875: Are Chinook and Japanese related?
Here’s one of the earliest examples of an idea that I first heard from folks on our CHINOOK listserv around 1999 — are Chinuk Wawa and Japanese related?
1918: Oregon pioneer reunion w/Chinook singing
Even World War 1 couldn’t keep the Oregon oldtimers from partying down in Chinuk Wawa!
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 14: ‘to pursue’)
Adding to our ample proof that Lower Chehalis Salish has had an enormous influence on Chinuk Wawa, heretofore not given due recognition….
1897: Inuit pidgin?
A Klondike-era news report, in trying to illustrate “Eskimo” language, unwittingly seems to add to the small known stock of data on Inuit pidgin!
1880: Another Lord’s Prayer, Grand Ronde style
Out of the many Chinook Jargon versions of the Christian “Lord’s Prayer”, this one from the Grand Ronde, Oregon area stands out for its unique spellings…