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

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

British Columbia · British ColumbiaHere’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