Lower Chehalis ‘you’re stupid’ + Chinuk Wawa
Another of the countless cases where Lower Chehalis Salish and Chinook Jargon parallel each other closely:
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1895: “Chinook Hymns” in Chinuk Pipa (Part 2: “A New Song for Christmas”)
Calling all readers! Do you know what Christmas carol this Jargon version is based on?
1909: Prominent German salmon man at Salem
Another German talking good Chinuk Wawa in the Pacific Northwest…
Why is it tumála, not *tumólo* etc.?
A simple question: why is ‘tomorrow’ pronounced tumála in Chinook Jargon?
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 17: ‘to roast’)
Okay, class, settle down.
1892: A startling story
Rumors got lots of play, it seems, in frontier-era Alaska, but calmer heads questioned them.
1857, Oregon: Close nanage this prisoner
Typical for the frontier era, a newspaper had snarky comments about a local prisoner.
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 7: a Boas misunderstanding)
Our BC friend Dale shared this one about 7 years ago, in the Facebook “Chinook Jargon” group.
Klamath-language ‘corn’ is another Jargon loan?
Previously here, I’ve shown how southwest Oregon’s ʔewksgiˑsam hemkanks (Klamath language) is an example of another language (Canadian/Métis French) being preserved indirectly.
1901: “Hyas muckamuck” menu
Oregon “Indian War” veterans were connected with Chinook Jargon, quite rightly, in the popular mind — that’s why this dinner that they gave in the nation’s capital has a Chinook menu.