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Poser 2003 on ᑐᑊᘁᗕᑋᗸ…there are many parallels with Chinuk Pipa
British Columbia · British Columbia

Poser 2003 on ᑐᑊᘁᗕᑋᗸ…there are many parallels with Chinuk Pipa

I’m in the business of checking everything that’s said in the scholarly world about Chinook Jargon, so today I’ll have a look at a paper by my friend Bill Poser. I’m talking about his excellent study, “Dʌlk’wahke: The First Carrier Writing System” from 2003. A further parallel between dʌlk’wahke and Chinuk Pipa: there are special ways to show you’re writing a name; here a plus sign, in CP a dotted underline For us in the Chinook Jargon world, wi…Read Article
1887, Yakima, WA: Indigenous speeches in Chinook Jargon at the 4th of July
Yakima · Yakima

1887, Yakima, WA: Indigenous speeches in Chinook Jargon at the 4th of July

Here’s a nice example of Indigenous leaders making public speeches in Chinuk Wawa during the frontier era…at the Settler celebration par excellence. Klickitat Chief White Swan (Joe Stwire) (image credit: University of Washington Libraries) Mr. Reavis [the Indian Agent] was fol- lowed by several Indian speakers among whom were Joe Stwire, Inyas and Frank Menchum, who spoke in the Chinook dialect, and their addresses were inter- preted for the ben…Read Article
Is {overt pronoun subject} + Verb from Indo-European?
British Columbia · British Columbia

Is {overt pronoun subject} + Verb from Indo-European?

Here’s a very simple point about the early formation of Chinook Jargon. Image credit: Lake Forest College 1. Is CJ’s normal grammatical word order (for Active sentences), pronoun Subject + Verb, due to Indo-European influence? Obviously meaning Métis/Canadian French & English. No other member of the Indo-European family has exerted any consistent social pressure on Chinuk Wawa. We’re very safe inferring that the incessant, prominent French & En…Read Article

Do Active/Stative languages have Causatives?

Previous linguistic researchers, including me, have called the mamuk- (in the Southern Dialect munk-) formation of verbs a “Causative”, which isn’t totally wrong. However… Image credit: Spotify Additional years of work with Chinuk Wawa (Chinook Jargon) have surprisingly shown that this is an Active/Stative language. So the Jargon is not Nominative/Accusative like English, or Ergative/Absolutive like another Indo-European language, Hindi-Urdu. F…Portland, Oregon · PortlandRead Article

1897, BC: words for ‘breast(s)’, and Red River Métis

You may recall, I’ve previously written about the word tit in Northern Chinook Jargon. Now here’s quite an interesting spelling of an older word for the same thing — titush: Image credit: Instagram Tanas son, tanas man mamuk halak iaka ‘In the morning, the boy opened his’ siahus: iaka tanas ihi kopa iaka mama; ‘eyes; he giggled at his mother;’ iaka tiki titush: pus iaka kopit makmak, iaka ‘he wanted the breast; when he was done nursing, he’ tiki…Kamloops · KamloopsRead Article

“The Survey of Vancouver English”: Part 2, “skookum”

An interesting report, “The Survey of Vancouver English“, is subtitled “A Sociolinguistic Study of Urban Canadian English”. This was published in 2004 by RJ Gregg et al. by Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, Canada. (Strathy Language Unit Occasional Papers number 5.) (Click for all installments in this mini-series.) Image credit: Skookum Music Festival, Vancouver, via The Georgia Straight From it, we’re finding that Vancouverites had lost a lot…Vancouver, British Columbia · VancouverRead Article

“Frazer’s River” BC timeline, 1858 — how the Jargon suddenly got brought into New Caledonia

A rare clear starting point in language history is the introduction of Chinook Jargon into mainland British Columbia (New Caledonia then), which we can place in 1858. The Fraser River gold rush abruptly brought lots of non-Indigenous people into that region, which if a census could’ve been taken would prove 99% Indigenous. The sudden desire and need for communication between establishment and arrivistes in the North American New Caledonia ensure…British Columbia · British ColumbiaRead Article

1843-44, OR and CA: “Captain Fremont’s Second Exploring Expedition — Continued”

Comments about a Chinook young man (Billy Chinook) accompanying the famous Captain John C. Frémont’s second exploring expedition into California reveal how hugely important Chinook Jargon was, at least half a century into its existence. Image credit: Granger There was a whole lot of nationwide newspaper coverage of Frémont’s 1843-1844 journeys, so it’s not hard to find accounts like the following: The expedition commenced its homeward matchon…California, United States · CaliforniaRead Article

Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 16: Fast? Big?)

Looking through a number of observations made by our friend Dr Dale McCreery from where he lives up on BC’s central coast… Image credit: xkcd Here’s one from March 21, 2014 that he posted in the Facebook “Chinook Jargon” group. naika tikh hayas – either – “take it easy”, or as I see it, maybe “I want it fast” ? It’s the punch line for a fairly explicit short story about someone. Sounds like “nayka tik hayas” or nayka tikh hayas, the -h after t s…Facebook · Bella CoolaRead Article

2008: Denzer-King on “doosh” meaning ‘cat’

I’d like to spend a moment with ‘cats’. In particular, I want to talk about something that’s been said about the word for ‘cat’ in the Lingít (a.k.a. Tlingit) language of southeast Alaska and neighboring areas. Image credit: Redbubble I’m in the business of reviewing everything that’s been said in print about Chinuk Wawa, most of it needing clarification in light of the enormous amount that we’ve learned in the last 25 years. Today: Ryan Denzer…Cats · AlaskaRead Article

1886, WA: Olney appointed interpreter

Late in the frontier era in Washington Territory, there was still a real need for experts at talking Chinuk Wawa. Thus this terse announcement in the local newspaper: Tho[ma]s Olney appointed interpreter of  Chinook jargon. — from “District Court Proceedings”, in the Port Townsend (Washington Territory) Puget Sound Weekly Argus of November 11,1886, page 3, column 5 The language was still mighty alive ‘n’ kicking! The need for a government-salari…Port Townsend · Port TownsendRead Article

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