Circa 1836-1838, OR/WA: John Kirk Townsend’s early CJ vocabulary, and coexisting pidgin + creole (Part 1)
I’ll be double-dog-darned!
CHINOOK JARGON AS A BC ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE: The following is an argument I wrote up as a grad student, a few years back. It’s keenly relevant now, eh?
I’ll be double-dog-darned!
Fortunately for us, the acute-epithetted Alex Code noticed and made a captioned video of a Northern Chinook Jargon song that’s of some importance to us. This is a type of Chinook Jargon song… Continue reading →
Kids these days!
“Russian in Alaska and in Alaskan languages” by the late, great linguist Michael Krauss of the University of Alaska Fairbanks is a brilliant demonstration.
As sung by Skokomish elder Henry Ruben Allen (1864-1956) several decades ago, this song quickly teaches you how to use “silent IT”. (Symbolized by Ø here.)
A party held in an early Seattler’s Settler’s home on January 16, 1866 was well remembered 40 years after!
From Stó:lō Coast Salish country:
(Dedicated to Paul.) You know who I appreciate? My readers!
Thanks to Professor Peter Bakker for an email in 2022 that got me thinking in a new way about a seldom-researched Chinook Jargon book…
In the 1893 book “La sténographie en France“, which is mostly in French shorthand, the inventor thereof, Émile Duployé, reports years of contact with Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, who is famous to us as… Continue reading →