Previously uncredited / unknown Chinook writings by LN St Onge (and others)
Here’s another subject that a motivated student / grad student / scholar can turn into an excellent little research project and/or publication…
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AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (Part 13: “cholo” and “little little”)
And still more new discoveries!
Getting the etymology of “kʰánumákwst” together
Everyone knows, kʰánumákwst in Chinook Jargon means ‘together’, and ‘together’ = kʰánumákwst.
“Memories of White Salmon and Its Pioneers”
One of the earliest places in what’s now Washington state where Settlers put down stakes was White Salmon, in Klickitat County.
Chinook Jargon at the movies, Part 1: “Shadow of the Rougarou”
Happy Halloween! What better time to start our newest mini-series…with a werewolf story!
Back-translation challenge: “The Coming of the Horse” by HM Painter
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Minto, “Rhymes of Early Life in Oregon, and…”
No, thankfully, this is not all doggerel…
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: 1859, northern California — Conversion of an Oregonian damsel
A variation on some of the oldest PNW folkloric jokes —
What Nez Perce láwtiwa• makes us think…
Haruo Aoki’s high-quality dictionary of the Sahaptian-family language that most of us casually call Nez Perce, which is Ni•mi•pu•tímt in the language itself, contains another word that makes us think about the history… Continue reading
Aspiration: non-distinctive in Northern CW, distinctive in Southern CW
One of the big differences between the 2 living dialects of Chinook Jargon: ± aspiration.