I was talking with an older lady who lives in Colville, Washington, who told me of an “Amish” street name there…

This online copy of “Chinook Dictionary, Catechism, Prayers and Hymns” belonged to its editor, Louis-Napoléon St Onge.

It’s not easy to find one word for a ‘cousin’ in Chinook Jargon.

I thought I had pointed this out previously in this space.

Yes, more good stuff for us to learn from. Here’s the finale of the Credo.

My French-speaking friends are already laughing.

Chris, an economist at UVic, indexed the TN Hibben dictionary a couple of years back.

Words for ‘finger’ differ, and vary in their reach, from dialect to dialect in Chinook Jargon.

I know I’m not alone in having doubted the presence of some “Indian” (sorry) words in Chinuk Wawa that we know originated from far-away Eastern Algonquian languages, and that we know could only… Continue reading →

Under naika ‘I; mine’ in Louis-Napoléon St Onge’s handwritten Chinuk Wawa dictionary that’s about 150 years old, there comes a string of Central Dialect entries that express what I’ll call non-core kin. (No offense to… Continue reading →