Northern Chinook Jargon “pak” for “carrying a load”
There’s a great chance this is partial proof that Chinuk Wawa is a gold-rush language of British Columbia! (Hat tip to linguist William Turkel.)
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How ‘stirrups’ is a remarkable word in Chinuk Wawa
Here’s how Chinuk Wawa’s word sitle(y) is a totally one-of-a-kind phenomenon.
1882, Fidalgo Island, WA: Not clatawa coupa siah
Untranslated Chinook Jargon!
Why so many English words in Kamloops Wawa #53?
What do you think?
Claims! Irrealis versus realis subordinate clauses!
With a grateful tip of the hat to Professor Leslie Saxon of the University of Victoria’s Department of Linguistics.
Reminiscences of 1848 on Puget Sound
Here’s an early western Washington settler’s recollection of his first trip “down” Puget Sound — meaning northwards — in 1848, and of pretending not to understand Chinuk Wawa once.
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 13: staff of Kamloops school)
Here’s the staff of the Kamloops Catholic mission, who ran the “Industrial School” —
1874, WA: Dry Goods Sale: No Humbug: Delate Wawa
An ad in frontier-era Washington Territory didn’t have to explain its use of Chinook Jargon.
1885, WA: “Our Post Office” doggerel
With a couple of characters speaking mixed Chinook Jargon & Chinese Pidgin English, none of it translated, thus probably lifelike.