How is YOUR name written in Chinuk Pipa?
I’m about to start giving lessons in the Chinook Jargon’s own unique alphabet, Chinuk Pipa.
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1904: Remembered 1872 Lushootseed Chinuk Wawa
Thanks a bunch to devoted Chinuk Wawa student Sequoia Edwards for sharing a wonderful find!
Lumping splitting words…
Franz Boas’s very fine “Chinook: An Illustrative Sketch” (1910) includes his student Edward Sapir’s summary…
wík mánaqi, & a new layer of Canadian heritage?
A Grand Ronde expression…
1953: Siwash Social at Seattle U.
Waaaay past frontier times, a Seattle University (well, *the* Seattle University) kept Chinuk Wawa alive as a campus tradition.
Mamuk is a killer?
Add this to our collection of awful translations of Chinook Jargon.
James G. Swan’s diary (1859-63)
Shortly after living on Shoalwater Bay, Washington Territory, where he wrote his famous memoir / document of Chinook Jargon…
‘Angry’ because of White people?
Chinuk Wawa’s basic word sáliks surprised me the other day.
‘Wait’, but don’t ‘wait for’, the origin of the Jargon quasi-Passive!
Weit is the most common way to express ‘wait’ in British Columbia-style Chinook Wawa.