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1994: BP Harris’s arguments for a pre-contact Chinuk Wawa

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[Updated several days after posting.] There’s an article by the late UVic linguist Barbara P. Harris, one of the co-founders of the Chinook Wawa Gathering that helped revitalize this language, that’s worth your… Continue reading

‘Not thus’ and such

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Here’s a small collection of Chinuk Wawa expressions, some of which I do think, and some I don’t think, trace their lineage back to Lower Chinookan negations.

McArthur’s “Oregon Geographic Names” (part 4 of 8)

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Part 4 of our mini-series on McArthur’s classic reference work about “Oregon Geographic Names”…

1847: Joel Palmer’s “Journal”

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Joel Palmer (1810-1881) was one of the first to publish a mass-market book describing the Oregon Country…

“Sweet BetseyAnn Spikes” :) (part 7 of 7)

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#7 is the last in our mini-series on this charming pseudonymous character.

1846: Frémont’s “Narrative” and implicit CW

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Not all documents of Chinuk Wawa seem like documents of CW.

1888: A sermon by Myron Eells (part 3)

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The third page (page 34) of this sermon, published in Horatio Hale’s “An International Idiom“.

‘Quahogs’ a-popping?

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Subtitled, nope, they just suck. Subtitled, even John Peabody Harrington wasn’t infallible.

Resolved: single-word emotions are from Chinookan, multi-word from Salish

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Here I’m supposing that Chinuk Wawa’s psychological-state (including emotion) lexemes typically derive from Lower Chinookan…

Do-ka-batl story, and more Lushootseed-tinged CW

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A hat tip today to Jim Mattila, who has sent me some more historic articles that relate to Lushootseed speakers and Chinuk Wawa!