Talking about Chinook Jargon in Sliammon
Here’s a sentence in Sliammon (a pretty far northern Coast Salish language of what’s now British Columbia):
CHINOOK JARGON AS A BC ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE: The following is an argument I wrote up as a grad student, a few years back. It’s keenly relevant now, eh?
Here’s a sentence in Sliammon (a pretty far northern Coast Salish language of what’s now British Columbia):
About 3 years ago I introduced you to a Chinook Jargon song recorded in 1911 by Nez Perce tribal members.
Thanks to a conversation the other day with Doctors Henry Kammler and ƛukša Adam Werle, we have this thought.
I’m very curious: how is moodih a Chinook Jargon loan into Dakelh?
On the topic of stuff I’ve thought for many years but evidently haven’t said in so many words here:
I credit CWDP (2012:121).
In British Columbia History magazine 52:2 (Summer 2019), pages 26-31, we get some insight into the role of Chinook Jargon in the early frontier era of BC.
Alexander Ross was quite good with languages.
“Calque” is the word to know… In “Clackamas Chinook Texts”, page 562, wátuɬ čúkčan (‘fire wagon’) is the Clackamas-language term for a ‘railroad train’. Image credit: Progressive Rail This is clearly borrowed from Chinuk Wawa’s páya-t’síkt’sik!… Continue reading →
How about this new idea about a real old Chinuk Wawa word?