‘Silverside salmon’ (coho) in Shoalwater Bay Chinuk Wawa
Add this to your Jargon dictionaries.
Add this to your Jargon dictionaries.
Recognizable in today’s clipping is some normal BC Chinook Jargon.
I was using M.A.R. Barker’s “Klamath Dictionary” (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1963) for some research — resulting in one article already on this site — when a really obvious loan word… Continue reading
As much as Chinook invitations were a Pacific Northwest institution…
The 2012 Grand Ronde dictionary of Chinuk Wawa is our source for the word múwatʰwas ‘Modocs’.
Some linguistic work I was doing recently brought my attention back to the Lower Chehalis Salish word támtamaʔ ‘clothing; belongings; what you own’.
This 15-per-team sport was clearly Rugby Union…
A Chinook Jargon phrase that I learned on a research trip in southeast Alaska makes its first known appearance in southwest Oregon…
When I posted this on the old CHINOOK listserv in 2008, we had no way to show pictures…
I’ve mentioned many times the outsized, but under-researched, role of Lower Chehalis Salish in forming “Chinook Jargon”.