1933: Premium on good stories as old timers gather in Similkameen
Once again many thanks to our friend Alex Code, for sharing another fun clipping from a newspaper that’s given us several of them.
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Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 13: ‘fire is out’)
Today we find the first printed occurrence of Chinuk Wawa’s word chxə́p ‘extinguished, out’.
1905 and 1912: Joe Pi(d)geon and “Cariboo Cowboy”
It’s nice, how often we can find more information about folks from the world of Kamloops Wawa.
About Chinook Jargon, in Finnish
In 2014, Tommi Tienpää published an article, “Chinook-Jargon: Kauppakielen Juuret ja Historia”…
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 3)
Our friend Dale McCreery PhD sometimes shares notes on his encounters with Chinook Jargon in his daily life in Bella Coola, British Columbia.
1897: The Pollydiem
This opinionated Washington state newspaper might not be so interesting, if it weren’t so rooted in the frontier era.
1903: “Capswallow” is again the charge
Smart aleck Eleck!
This week’s quiz at Lingoblog.dk!
Hop over to our sister blog, LingoBlog from Denmark, for a quiz that has a connection with Chinuk Wawa. When you’re there, you can scroll down for the English version of the question:… Continue reading
AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (Part 3)
This scarcely known document continues to delight, with its careful pronunciation notes and its accurate matchup with everything else we know about northern-dialect Chinuk Wawa.
“Klahowya” has White folks written all over it
There’s no equally or more reasonable explanation for the loss of the /m/ from ɬax̣á(w)yam.