Pidgins are all endangered
Pidgins are by definition endangered languages. Northern Chinook Jargon is a pidgin.
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1894: A child prodigy of Chinook Writing, tattling at Spahomin, BC
In the northern dialect, we have this account of an anonymous kid who just couldn’t resist expressing himself in Chinook Writing:
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 10: Prayer)
Song #10 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
1912: Eine Indianer-Zeitung
Published after the Chinook Jargon newspaper “Kamloops Wawa” had stopped regular publication, this newspaper article in German (from the USA!) is nonetheless interesting.
Final answer? There are (actually, were) 3 dialects of Chinook Jargon.
Ever since my research showed that there’s a very distinct dialect of Chinook Jargon that’s historically spoken north of the Columbia River, I’ve been talking about a 2-way split, of a “Northern” versus… Continue reading
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 20: le révérend père Fabre
The pictures in the Chinook Jargon newspaper “Kamloops Wawa” were always among the most popular elements in it…
másh is ‘leave’, NOT fundamentally ‘throw’
Let’s throw out the idea that Chinuk Wawa’s verb másh has a fundamental meaning of ‘to throw’ something.
1862: Letter from Nevada Territory + West Coast CPE
There’s an element of stereotyping going on in today’s excerpt from the frontier era…
t’łax̣anhæn and SW WA Salish ‘hand’::’personal characteristic’
Really just a short research note here.