3rd week of Advent: a Bible reading
Here’s another kind-of-translation of the Christian Bible into Chinuk Wawa… Advertisements
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Necessity made a tongue (and a prayer)
Here we discover a new (well, 1890) prayer in Chinuk Wawa.
Dr. John Scoulerʹs journal & the expansion of Jargon beyond the lower Columbia
Often when we’re researching a language via historical documents, it’s not just lists of words that are helpful…
The curse of Rev. W.C. “Chaltin”
Here’s the running tally:
A hatchet man is at the hello
Because a cartoon is involved, brace yourself for even rougher stereotyping than the usual (sexist as well as racist), but there’s real information here about California Chinese Pidgin English.
Second week of Advent
We’re currently in the second week of Advent, according to the traditional calendar that leads up to the year’s highlight of Jesus’ birth at Christmas.
Jeremiah Curtin & Chinuk Wawa
A really great read, that you’ve never heard of is the “Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin“.
lápʰusmu, from Mississippi Valley French
Another in my series on documenting French sources of Chinuk Wawa words…
More evidence of Chinuk Wawa as early as Lewis & Clark?
Sometimes you revisit something you’ve read many times, and see it in a fresh way.
Port Townsend wears the bell
“Chenook”, they used to say, rhyming it with “ye duke”.