Record-setting “per” phrase :)
Long story short: where X and Y are common nouns, “n X (kopa) n Y” = “n number of things X per n number of things Y” in Chinook Jargon.
Long story short: where X and Y are common nouns, “n X (kopa) n Y” = “n number of things X per n number of things Y” in Chinook Jargon.
The Patriarch, who was of course a cranky old White guy with plenty of cojones privilege, put his shoulder into the work of revitalizing Chinuk Wawa more than a century ago.
I’ve spoken many times about the various forms commands (imperatives) in Chinook Jargon take.
Well, this may be the earliest known writing of a (Northern) Chinook Jargon word in the Duployé shorthand.
I do a good deal of research work on Father JMR Le Jeune’s notebooks.
The very Indigenous word kultus is a lever that we use heavily in Chinook Jargon.
New Chinook Jargon music keeps getting created on Vancouver Island, BC.
What may be the earliest known vocabulary collection of early CJ (Franchère 1820:204-205)* contains this entry:
The things you learn when you’re researching Chinuk Wawa!
There had been a major wave of interest in preserving Chinook Jargon just preceding the publication of this article in Washington state.