Songs of LBDB (Part 1)
“Tenas Liza Jane” is the only song in Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s 1924 dictionary that doesn’t also appear in her “Chinook-English Songs” book.
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“małni”: the feature film & the old word
From the Tate Modern (London, UK) website, news dated January 8th of a feature film using Chinook Jargon:
Why x̣áwqał isn’t an adverb, & why that matters
x̣áwqał ‘unable to, can’t’ is not an adverb.
“Chapelure”? (Merci à MLT)
Thanks to my reader Marie-Lucie Tarpent for a comment that inspired this article.
Mox Boarding House?
Today’s post is a crowdsourced question for my readers…
LBDB: Prose, not lyrics (Part 6)
Grace before Meals…our last installment from her dictionary.
More about ma tante
A comment by a participant in our Saturday morning Jargon lesson brought this up…
Chinuk Wawa in a Stó:lō hymn book (Part 6)
Right up front, I want to praise the translators of this song for their punctuation…
1897: Everette thinks “Stikine” is “Stick Indians”
A self-taught frontier linguist has some odd ideas…
More about “Skin Tyee”
Confirmed: a BC First Nation has a Chinuk Wawa name.