1889: Amicably settled, in Chinook Jargon
The dialogue in the following incident took place in Chinuk Wawa…can you imagine it?
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chákwa explained?
There’s so much Lower Chehalis Salish influence, largely undocumented before my research, in Chinuk Wawa.
The Chahko Mika handshake: firm, or difficult?
As you read the following wonderful clipping, think of this: is the “Chahko Mika handshake” a firm one, or a complicated one?
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 1: ‘to accompany’)
In a separate article on the word < howh >, I pointed out an obscure Chinuk Wawa word that you might write as x̣áwənsʔi, meaning ‘let us’ (‘let’s!’).
1873: Pronoun (not gender) troubles
Researcher (and up-and-coming northern-dialect CJ speaker) Jakob Svorkdal of UVic has sent along another excellent old newspaper find:
More about pátlach-hàws
When I originally wrote up the “discovery” of potlatch house (pátlach-hàws) as a Chinuk Wawa compound noun, I left out a couple of details of interest.
“Mákook pi Sélim”, December 2022
This arrived in the mailbox! This article is inside the magazine: qʰata mayka təmtəm? What do you think?
1862: Siletz chiefs’ speeches for back-translation into CW (Part 1 of 6)
nayka wáwa drét háyú mási kʰapa David Gene Lewis, PhD, for inspiring this mini-series.
“Siwashed” in BC English newspapers
All 3 examples of “siwashed” today come from a single newspaper, and all have the same meaning.
Leland’s funny irony
Charles G. Leland inserted fake cussin’ in his otherwise fairly accurate 1888 article “Der Chinook-Jargon“.