Re-creolization + re-Métis-ization in the Grand Ronde reservation community

Re-creolization + re-Métis-ization in the Grand Ronde reservation community

POINT #1: The earlier form of the word for “tongue” and “language” appears to have been the Central Dialect’s lalak. Image credit: Family Search Lalak is an expectable Chinuk Wawa, Indigenized, pronunciation of Métis/Canadian French la langue [lalãg]. We see it as far back, at a minimum, as the Fort Vancouver (WA) region data in Demers, Blanchet, and St Onge. By the time of the elders who worked with Henry Zenk, resulting in the splendid 2012 G…