A trip through the onetime “Moses Reservation” (Columbia Indian Reservation), Washington Territory, in July & August of 1883 turns up all the Chinuk Wawa we’d expect from Salish people there and then (hayuuu)…
Readers of the anthropological literature, including dictionaries of Indigenous languages, may be familiar with scholars’ use of delicately italicized Latin: it’s to express the racier bits to their in-group readers.
A number of the stories that are preserved in Chinuk Wawa have French roots…
The heavy weather theme continues: I’m struck by ‘lightning’.
“Cutsarks”?
If I’m going to do a multi-part series on ‘rain’ in Chinook Jargon, I can do no better than to head to Southeast Alaska…
…there are more thoughts about rain. So today…
“Perhaps it was onomatopoetic, inspired by the sound of drops hitting the top of an overturned canoe.”
Regarding the mists of pre-Chinuk Wawa history, we can just make out that a couple of earlier pidgin languages entered the DNA of our Jargon…
Just in case this hasn’t already drawn attention to itself 🙂Â
