This is what Old Testament Chinook is like
If you’re looking for a preacherly way to thunder at people in Chinook Jargon, you are in luck, comrade. Here’s how: Just like in English, you use outmoded ways of talking from long… Continue reading
If you’re looking for a preacherly way to thunder at people in Chinook Jargon, you are in luck, comrade. Here’s how: Just like in English, you use outmoded ways of talking from long… Continue reading →
O nsaika drit yutl tomtom kopa nsaika tanas shako kopit sik. Nsaika wawa mirsi kopa ST kopa ukuk. “Oh, we’re really glad about our children recuperating. We thank God for it.” …pi… Continue reading →
Herewith, learn how the number of hearts ascribed to you in Chinook Jargon reveals your faith status. If you have blood coursing through your aorta yet, you will find this thrilling — and chillingly… Continue reading →
I’m putting this up in hopes one of you will jar my brain with a clue: Where does the word “sorts” in Kamloops Chinuk Wawa come from? Discovering it in the Kamloops Wawa newspaper (#116… Continue reading →
A chief uses his influence to persuade other Native leaders to modernize their people with Chinook literacy. Istir Sondi. Shugar Kin Naika Wiam taii kopa Shugar Kin Naika mamuk ukuk pipa kopa maika… Continue reading →
<Rev. L.N. St Onge.> Aias lili iaka sik Pir Sint Onsh, kakwa wik kata iaka mamuk pipa kopa msaika. Iaka yutl tomtom kopa msaika. Tlus kanawi msaika mamuk hilp iaka kopa styuil. “For… Continue reading →
From Hutchings’ Illustrated California Magazine, Vol. IV no. 4 (October 1859), column “Our Social Chair”, page 185: the popular verse “Lo! The Poor Indian” (originally a section of Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Man“, and… Continue reading →
Have you taken it?
Something that eventually occurred to Father Le Jeune, once he had gotten 500+ people literate in Chinook shorthand… They needed to be told to keep their Kamloops Wawa clean and dry. This is not,… Continue reading →
Experience introducing college students to phonetic notation as an alternate way to represent their mother tongue suggests you will have a hard time reading this, at first. Want to leave your transcription of… Continue reading →