Shimmy shimmy ko-ko pop! Fun fun thoughts about reduplication today.

The origins of Chinuk Wawa púlali ‘dust; powder’ have been argued over for quite some time.

Word stress in Chinuk Wawa is pretty predictable…with a big exception.

In honor of our poor dogs, who have to put up with us being home all the time nowadays!

Stringing together a couple of speculations here…

First, you have Archie Binns.

This short note invites you to make suggestions to me…

Let’s take a break to celebrate that other West Coast pidgin language…

In the 1994 Lushootseed Salish dictionary by Bates, Hess, & Hilbert, there’s a root p’áƛ’- (bound) ‘of no importance’

During the zenith of Chinook Writing in British Columbia, an American Catholic magazine ran a lavish feature on the “Passion Play” that was staged in Chinuk Wawa there.