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Loanwords in Karuk (NW California)

Summary by Chinook Jargon
None are from Chinuk Wawa, but all tell us interesting stuff about Pacific NW language contact! The late great linguist William Bright, alongside Susan Gehr, created a “Karuk Dictionary” that’s now online. A wonderful feature of it is that you can toggle a search for “Semantic Domain: loanwords“, and see what kind of stuff this Northwest California Indigenous language isolate has historically borrowed from other languages. I’m fascinated that th…
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Chinook Jargon broke the news in on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.
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