More humor in Chinuk Wawa: Quilchena, automobile, what have you
Today’s tidbit is from an issue of Kamloops Wawa that was only in French…
Today’s tidbit is from an issue of Kamloops Wawa that was only in French…
Here are some neat Chinuk Wawa-related recollections from the BC-Washington border area in the Okanagan a.k.a. Okanogan country.
I’ve found even more examples supporting my observation that old-time spellings of Chinook Jargon words often wrote < i > (or < y >) when they meant [á].
The Umatilla Sahaptin dictionary is a treasure.
The earliest, and effectively the only, occurrence of “wahpoos” as a word for a snake in Chinuk Wawa is found in George Coombs Shaw’s 1909 dictionary, published in Seattle.
Further Chinook Jargon reading practice, in the Northern Dialect, from“Kamloops Wawa” #125, page 18.
Today’s piece is dedicated to friend of Chinuk Wawa and Francophone extraordinaire, George “La” Lang 😁
I credit Leo Barker for this find.
Definitely in the Northern Dialect of Chinook Jargon is song #11 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
“Trade language”, as Chinuk Wawa has often been called, also means exchange of services, as well as goods…