Another brick in the SENĆOŦEN ‘shithouse’
There’s a word in SENĆOŦEN (Saanich) Salish of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, that seems as if it ought to be inspired by Chinuk Wawa…
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1896: Talking to Spokane Garry’s sister in Jargon
The hat tip for this rare find goes to Tina Wynecoop, without whose recent Facebook post I mightn’t have noticed it.
“Canadian Camp Life”
Another largely autobiographical book by Frances Elizabeth Herring shows us some more BC Chinuk Wawa…
A Wakashan+Tsamosan co-etymology?
Very possibly a chance coincidence — but sometimes we find the most amazing resemblances among Chinuk Wawa’s input languages…
[sic]-tə́mtəm
Working with large numbers of Chinuk Wawa documents, as I do, I often find myself adding “[sic]” as a comment on what I’m seeing…
Salish ‘mind’ as a discovery in Chinuk Wawa
Every so often, my digging in the mountains of BC Chinuk Pipa (or “shorthand”) Chinuk Wawa writing turns up a new word.
1902: Alaskan Inuit pidgin English (/Hawai’ian)
It’s been known for some time that there was a pidgin Inuit language in far northern Alaska’s frontier days…
1891: Chinuk Wawa time capsule in Victoria, BC
It’s been 129 years — let’s dig this up & find out what the “book in Chinook” is!
1893 (!) : Reminiscences of Nanaimo’s old days
Well, this article appears on what passed for the kids’ page, so the 1850s and 1860s would’ve seemed like long ago…
There’s more than one way for a cat to be skinned: Multiple CW quasi-passives, plus metatypy?
Hayu masi to Beth for commenting in chinuk-wawa…