“A West Coast Christmas” anthology
“A West Coast Christmas” anthology, edited by Anne Tempelman-Kluit…
“A West Coast Christmas” anthology, edited by Anne Tempelman-Kluit…
Thanks to an amateur artist who was on the scene during British Columbia’s frontier era, we have lively pictures of scenes where Chinuk Wawa almost certainly played a part.
Happy Chinook Christmas!
One proposed French etymology that we can toss right out is the following flight of imagination…
A brief quotation of Californian Chinese Pidgin English in the late-frontier era shows you more about West Coast “contact languages”…
Alongside what we now consider the usual word for ‘arrow’, Father Lionnet’s 1853 Chinuk Wawa vocabulary presents a mystery…
This could have implications for southern-dialect (early-creolized) Chinuk Wawa.
An artist to keep your eyes on…
To read previous installments of Betseyannspikes’s correspondence, click here.
This post is intended as a short, sweet suggestion.