kíkwəli pi Sproat
Gilbert Malcolm Sproat’s 1868 book “Scenes and Studies…” implies a unique etymology for a common Chinuk Wawa word…
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1893-1897: Sweet “BetseyAnnSpikes” :) (Part 1 of 7)
American newspapers in the late 1800s loved to publish letters from people living at the fringes of their circulation area, as a way of getting news for free.
“Why the alahs are sticky”
Thanks again to my reader Jim Mattila, this time for sending along a scan of a neat old newspaper article involving Lushootseed speakers and Chinuk Wawa.
Some arguments about CW never go away!
You’ve previously seen a 1910 letter to the editor of a Medford (OR) newspaper about this…
Mamuk-rop vs. mamuk-k’aw: a matter of life and death
You’d be forgiven (ego te absolvo) for expecting that < mamuk k’aw > (literally ‘make tied’) and < mamuk rop > (literally ‘make rope(d)’) are synonyms…
“Artist talk and conversation with Sky Hopinka” 11.04.2020
“Artist talk and conversation with Sky Hopinka“…
Complicating the story of íxsti, y’all
A southern-dialect Chinuk Wawa form that we only know from Grand Ronde is íxsti ‘once’…
BC CW speaker is finalist for new Canadian banknote design
Won Cumyow, the British Columbian court interpreter fluent in Chinook Wawa, may wind up being the face of Canada’s new $5 bill.
Now you can “know how” kəmtəks- ‘Habitually’ became a prefix early in CW
I’ve been realizing that there were a number of grammatical categories that the non-Native documentors of early-creolized Chinuk Wawa didn’t see the significance of…
My vacation photos, part 4
Seen in Coupeville, Whidbey Island, Washington…