El Comancho’s Washington, DC newspaper column on Chinook Jargon (3 of 6)
To the list of fun research we can do once Covid-19 restrictions go away, add “find the full archives of the Washington Star“…
To the list of fun research we can do once Covid-19 restrictions go away, add “find the full archives of the Washington Star“…
The muse of the Oregon coast is back…
A modest proposal…are any of my readers willing to draw the coat of arms described here?
As we so often find, a Chinookan-language “particle” is said to be the historical source of Chinuk Wawa’s qʰéẋchi ‘although, even though’.
Here’s a quick crowdsourcing challenge:
Was it doggerel?
I agree with the 2012 Grand Ronde Tribes dictionary; I just have more to say 🙂
A US Naval officer remembers some Chinuk Wawa from America’s then-new territory, southeast Alaska:
One of my readers asked the other day about the origin of a couple of Chinuk Wawa words for directions relating to a body of water…
Issue 4 has arrived…I couldn’t resist sharing it!