1871: ADDENDA to early-creolized Chinuk Wawa
Some overlooked early-creolized Chinuk Wawa lexicon…
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kopa tolo: An endless enigma
I sure enough don’t know everything there is to know about Chinook Jargon; just look at this example!
On the size of the Chinuk Wawa “Adjective” class
It’s rather small.
Not quite heaven
A phrase that we know really well from BC’s Kamloops Wawa newspaper has quite a different meaning on the lower Columbia River.
More connections between BC Chinuk Wawa & Chinese/Pacific Pidgin Englishes
BC Chinook Wawa has other features that strike me as being similar to Chinese Pidgin English and the South Pacific Pidgin Englishes that CPE spawned…
An homage to Star Wars :)
Why is it okay Chinuk Wawa when you say hayas(h)-ánqati ‘very long ago’…
Chinuk Wawa in a Stó:lō hymn book (Part 9: “Tell It to Jesus”)
The second of three fragmentary translations, choruses only.
French Creek, Snohomish County, WA
Another of our sporadic crowd-sourcing challenges…
‘Evil’ & ‘pretty’?
Here I want to expand on a really great remark made by the crew of the 2012 Grand Ronde dictionary of Chinuk Wawa…
łxwáp ‘hole’ is only partly explained by Chinookan
Once again a Chinuk Wawa word has pretty much equally good claims to Chinookan and Salish parentage…