1914: LBDB’s “Chinook-English Songs”, part 6 of 15 “Lilly Dale”
Do you know “Lilly Dale”? Previously, I’ve written that this may have been the pop song that was most translated into Chinook!
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Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 24: Signum Crucis and Pater Noster)
And now for some rare old Chinook Jargon texts!
More Chinook Jargon court oaths: “Shamrocks on the Tanana”
“Shamrocks on the Tanana: Richard Geoghegan’s Alaska” by David Richardson was published by Cheechako Books in Snoqualmie, WA in 2009.
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, part 7B: Shaw’s “examples” 2nd installment
Page 3 of George Coombs Shaw’s northern-dialect dictionary of 1909 brings us another serving of full sentences to learn from.
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 23: to vomit)
Look what else emerged from Prof. Franz Boas’s brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“…
A correction to H. Rubenstein on Father Le Jeune’s “diary entries”
I don’t care to engage with the obviously political goal of its author, but his scholarship is shoddy and needs correcting…
Old postcards (Part 4: Koosah Falls)
Here’s a postcard of a scenic Oregon waterfall with a Chinook Jargon name…
Pentland “French loanwords in Cree”
David Pentland wrote a good article on “French Loanwords in Cree” that points out several things we can recognize in Chinook Jargon.
Discovered at Kamloops Archives: a word list, and Chinuk Pipa words penciled in
Found by our friend Alex Code at the Kamloops (BC) Archives — naika wawa mirsi (thanks to) Alex for sharing!
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 14: a pattern)
Here’s another contribution from our friend, the linguist Dr. Dale McCreery.