Some arguments about CW never go away!
You’ve previously seen a 1910 letter to the editor of a Medford (OR) newspaper about this…
You’ve previously seen a 1910 letter to the editor of a Medford (OR) newspaper about this…
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“…
A southern-dialect Chinuk Wawa form that we only know from Grand Ronde is íxsti ‘once’…
Won Cumyow, the British Columbian court interpreter fluent in Chinook Wawa, may wind up being the face of Canada’s new $5 bill.
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…
Seen in Coupeville, Whidbey Island, Washington…
In a separate article here about the concept of ‘crazy’, I write about a passage from the old Chinuk Pipa newspaper…
This little grammar note applies more to BC / “northern dialect” Jargon than to southern dialect / Grand Ronde talk…
In Gilbert Malcolm Sproat’s 1868 participant ethnography avant la lettre…