I’ve been running this website for 14½ years, so I think I can box up some Chinook Jargon-related Christmas reading for you by Boxing Day of 2025!

Tlus Lanoel! ɬúsh nowél!  Thanks to First Nations Tax Commission ikta mayka chaku-kəmtəks? Ikta maika chako-kumtuks? What have you learned? And, can you say it in Jargon?

Lil’wat composer and recording artist Russell Wallace of BC posted this on his Facebook page the other day: Image lifted from Russell Wallace’s Facebook page, with appreciation Can you read it? It’s Northern… Continue reading →

I intended to try making this very brief!

Naika wawa masi kopa Paisley pi Mokwst Alex, for reminding me of a great book by a great anthropological linguist!

A number of the French-sourced words, or variant forms thereof, in Louis-Napoléon St Onge’s manuscript are known to have been preserved in other Pacific NW languages, but have not previously turned up in… Continue reading →

Gee, another item in the “I Thought I Already Blogged That” Department!

I was writing the other day about how Chinuk Wawa is able to do this weird thing of inflecting an interjection!

I had an extra reason to be glad I came to the Joe Peter group this week on Discord*!

I’ve commented on how cool it is to learn how speakers of various languages have mentally translated Chinuk Wawa for their own uses.