Chinuk Wawa kʰriyé / kʰrí, a synonym of kʰ(i)láy, means ‘to yell, holler, shout’. (Image credit: Briar Patch magazine) It’s obviously Canadian/métis French-looking; compare crier in that language. kʰriyé / kʰrí might, like other French-to-CW words, come… Continue reading
Jedediah Strong Smith (1799-1831) and pals were the first US folks to reach the Oregon Country from California.
The legendary linguist of Native American languages, John Peabody Harrington (1884-1961), worked with quite a number of Chinook Jargon speakers, and documented some great stuff from them.
Everyone seems to sing the same tune, that tíntin is an onomatopoeia, but does that really “count” as an etymology?
The second installment in our mini-series on instructional sentences of Jargon has an especially great importance…
The published collection of “Kalapuya Texts” contains, as text #29, a description of aboriginal customs around tobacco use.
I think there are typographical errors in this quotation…
Many thanks to reader Jeff Wade of Idahistory Tours for this one!
A entrepreneurial man writes from a Nɬeʔképmx village to offer salmon for sale…
Just a 2-part miniseries on the CW of renowned linguistic researcher JP Harrington.
