1880: Mica wake close!
In a small town, you’d better watch your behavior!
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1895: “Chinook Hymns” in Chinuk Pipa (Part 1: “An old song for Christmas = Ça bergers”)
There is so incredibly much Chinook Jargon written in the BC “Chinuk Pipa” alphabet that I still keep finding material I haven’t previously read!
1915: Jargon-talking parrot
Adding to our files on non-humans that could talk or understand Chinuk Wawa:
KUMTUKS.CA, a fantastic resource for learning Chinook Jargon!
A quick recommendation for you:
Ballast Island’s enduring connections with Chinuk Wawa
The other day, I wrote about discovering another intertribal waterfront community, Ballast Island on the Seattle waterfront, that seemed to be consistently connected with Chinuk Wawa…
1900, Lake Chelan: “nayka hilu wawa ukuk hayas-kʰəltəs wawa!” 😂😁🤣
Guess which dialect of Chinuk Wawa they were talking in north-central Washington at the Turn of the Century?
Northern-dialect CW interrogative “ikta”~”pus ikta” etc. ⇐ SW WA Salish?
Clause-initial pus ikta, pus kata, and pus kah (synonymous with plain ikta, kata, and kah ‘what?, how?, where?’) in northern-dialect Chinook Jargon as spoken by Salish people is probably influenced by how their Indigenous languages work.
“Spos” versus “pus” is old — but not oldest
A search through my website indicates I haven’t yet verbalized the following observations:
1879, Alaska: “Frozen Jokes”
Back when Alaskan newspapers existed only in California, someone was unfamiliar with the pronunciation of “Yakima” & with Chinuk Wawa.
1854, southwest Oregon: Che(e)nook and Nipissing
Many thanks to David Gene Lewis PhD for his phenomenal research, presented over the years on his website, The Quartux Journal.