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“Kaltash wawa” is one of the oldest known Chinook Jargon phrases
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“Kaltash wawa” is one of the oldest known Chinook Jargon phrases
Noted from the early 1810's at Fort Astoria, kʰə́ltəs wáwa is among the handful of multi-word phrases in Chinuk Wawa that we know from the earliest documents. Alexander Ross 1849:325 wrote this expression as kaltash wa-wa and defined it as 'idle talk'. In the Northern Dialect, we spell this Adjective + Noun phrase as kultus wawa. Another…
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