Another example of how clunky Chinuk Pipa’s own number symbols were
Right now I’m not re-finding the document, but in one edition of “Sténographie Duployé”, a textbook of the French-language ancestor of Chinuk Pipa, I found this:
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1885, Nesbit: “Tide Marshes of the United States”
The title (no pun intended) page of David Montgomery Nesbit’s “Tide Marshes of the United States” (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1885) mentions our Chinook-speaking friend Eldridge Morse!
1881, OR: “Chenook”-speaking Webfoot discovers a comet
In the summer of 1881, a newly noticed comet was all over the newspaper pages.
1905, NW WA: “Episode of the Utopia” doggerel
The connection with Chinook Jargon here is awful thin…
Why < na.wi.tka > in BC Chinook Writing?
And, why does < u > have 2 different shapes in BC Chinook Writing?
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“) —