Proof of concept: How to say ‘grandfather’ in Northern Chinook Jargon

Proof of concept: How to say ‘grandfather’ in Northern Chinook Jargon

You won’t find texts in the Northern Dialect using the word chúp for ‘grandfather’. In my 30 years of experience, that word is unknown in places like British Columbia. You’re always safe with the descriptive expressions mama yaka papa (‘mother’s father’) or papa yaka papa (‘father’s father’). (In the same way, Northern Dialect speakers just say tənas yaka tənas for a ‘grandchild’. That’s your ‘child’s child’.)  There are further ways to express…