Why < na.wi.tka > in BC Chinook Writing?
And, why does < u > have 2 different shapes in BC Chinook Writing?
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Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 26: ‘losing/missing…’
Here’s yet another of the things about Chinuk Wawa that researcher Franz Boas was the first to notice.
2025, Oregon: LCC’s Chinuk Wawa language program needs your support!
Palach dala. Patlach tala. Give!
WA: Upper Skagit Valley place names, and salvaging language information
It’s not an unusual situation for proper names to be everything we know about some previously-existing language.
Any CJ in Hupa?: The southern boundary of Jargon use
Is there even a single trace of Chinuk Wawa in northwest California’s Hupa language?
1859, BC’s Fraser River + CA: Earliest confusion of “high muckamuck” with Chinook Jargon
On the subject of a linguistic urban legend that I’ve already busted (see “Hawai’i Pidgin ‘High Makamaka’ Helps Us Bust a Jargon Myth“) —
1867, OR: Twenty-five cent diggings
Untranslated Chinuk Wawa was normal in Pacific Northwest newspapers in frontier times.
Support for ‘100’ coming from Chinookan ‘tree’
Apparently my suggestion that Chinuk Wawa’s tak’umunaq ‘one hundred’ is etymologically Chinookan for ‘(fir) tree’ isn’t outlandish.
1910, Nanimo, BC: Indian Shaker Church service
[Oops, I misspelled Nanaimo, sorry!] We can thank reader Alex Code for this neat item, too…
Čáw Pawá Láakni: They Are Not Forgotten
A phenomenal cultural document that recently joined my research library is the book “Čáw Pawá Láakni: They Are Not Forgotten / Sahaptian Place Names Atlas of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla” by… Continue reading