Beyond ínatay
One of my briefer posts…
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tláy-tə́mtəm, a ‘surprise’ from Salish
I know we’re not supposed to speak moistly in the time of Covid-19, but I’m so happy to discover this one, I’m spluttering 🙂
“Skookum” in the news
A good Jargon-related article just came out in a Toronto paper…
Quiz! Prizes!
Go to LINGOBLOG for a quiz that many of you can win prizes in!
1869: “Lecture on Manliness”, or, “civilized Chinook”
From the British Columbia frontier, we have a plenty swell document of the kind of slang English that influenced Chinuk Wawa!
Congratulations to Grand Ronde’s official Chinuk Wawa biliterates! And its immersion preschool.
One of the most successful language revitalization movements in the Pacific Northwest shows even more progress.
Another (lovely) Chinook Lord’s Prayer
We’ve seen a few versions of The Lord’s Prayer (“Our Father”) in Chinuk Wawa; today we’ll look at a 1909 one.
Also a Chinookan etymology for tunús (and ‘9’?)
…Plus new news about Chinookan diminutives and Franz Boas’s level of fluency in Chinuk Wawa.
Sacramento CPE: A California scandal
As usual, no translation is given for a newspaper quotation of West Coast Chinese Pidgin English.
1847 Sir George Simpson, “An Overland Journey round the World…1841 and 1842”
Thanks to my colleague, professor Peter Bakker, for an email pointing out an interesting book that a major fur-trade personality published while on active duty…