Commercial Chinuk Wawa, early post-frontier.

Another case of the actual Chinuk Wawa words telling a different story from what the Whites claimed they meant! 

Walkie-talkie! I like how that works. Let’s talk about < waki >. 

Yet another grammatical operator that crystallized early in Chinuk Wawa: the definite article.

It’s often been remarked that Chinook Jargon has lots of repetition, which has seemed strange to English- and French-speakers.

File this one under “I dreamed it, but it didn’t come true” 🙂 

Short and sweet 🙂 

I’ve pointed out various words of Chinuk Wawa that mutated away from their original, literal, meanings towards having abstract or even grammatical functions. Let’s take on a related puzzle.

An old piece of folklore about “Chemawa”:

Of historical value: