Sacramento CPE: You sabee him allee same Washington
A brief quotation of Californian Chinese Pidgin English in the late-frontier era shows you more about West Coast “contact languages”…
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Lionnet ‘arrow’ mystery, and Salish?
Alongside what we now consider the usual word for ‘arrow’, Father Lionnet’s 1853 Chinuk Wawa vocabulary presents a mystery…
Lower Chinookan cha: could it be Canadian French?
This could have implications for southern-dialect (early-creolized) Chinuk Wawa.
Sky Hopinka exhibit
An artist to keep your eyes on…
1893-1897: Sweet “BetseyAnnSpikes” :) (Part 3 of 7) (a Grand Ronde connection?)
To read previous installments of Betseyannspikes’s correspondence, click here.
Immediate Future tense in early creolized CW
This post is intended as a short, sweet suggestion.
Canoe “together”, an ancient Indigenous metaphor?
Could kəním ‘canoe’ be etymologically related to kʰánumákwst ‘together’?
Hi-yu Jesus and halo muck-a-muck
A post-frontier Settler writer characterizes the prevailing mood in Indian country…
CW numerals and language universals
One of the many ways Chinuk Wawa can be proved to be just like any other human language —
‘Fathom’ from ‘rope’ — an Indigenous metaphor
The early CW measure word íɬana ‘fathom; yard’ has been shown in the superb Grand Ronde dictionary to come from Chinookan…