Aspiration: non-distinctive in Northern CW, distinctive in Southern CW
One of the big differences between the 2 living dialects of Chinook Jargon: ± aspiration.
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February 1895: “Our Monthly Budget”, Part B (the Canadian messed up; that monsignor who gave you communion; pen pal pix)
More reading practice in Chinook for you, from the news of 1895!
Pidgins are all endangered
Pidgins are by definition endangered languages. Northern Chinook Jargon is a pidgin.
1894: A child prodigy of Chinook Writing, tattling at Spahomin, BC
In the northern dialect, we have this account of an anonymous kid who just couldn’t resist expressing himself in Chinook Writing:
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 10: Prayer)
Song #10 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
1912: Eine Indianer-Zeitung
Published after the Chinook Jargon newspaper “Kamloops Wawa” had stopped regular publication, this newspaper article in German (from the USA!) is nonetheless interesting.
Final answer? There are (actually, were) 3 dialects of Chinook Jargon.
Ever since my research showed that there’s a very distinct dialect of Chinook Jargon that’s historically spoken north of the Columbia River, I’ve been talking about a 2-way split, of a “Northern” versus… Continue reading
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 20: le révérend père Fabre
The pictures in the Chinook Jargon newspaper “Kamloops Wawa” were always among the most popular elements in it…
másh is ‘leave’, NOT fundamentally ‘throw’
Let’s throw out the idea that Chinuk Wawa’s verb másh has a fundamental meaning of ‘to throw’ something.
