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British Columbia · British Columbia

“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 Columbia Read 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 · California Read 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 Coola Read 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 · Alaska Read 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 Townsend Read Article

I need to go find this in Rome…!

A unique couple of items in “Chinook Writing” are spoken of in Kamloops Wawa #158 (November 1897), page 166: ‘To Pope Leo XIII. Around the same’ ‘time, our Natives wanted to send a memento to our’ ‘holy father the pope. This was a copy of our new’ ‘prayer book in 11 languages printed on white parchment, like’ ‘all of the books in the Vatican library. The Natives’ ‘each gave a penny (so 5 centimes) to cover’ ‘the costs of printing the book and bi…Pope Francis · Rome Read Article

Chinook Jargon does have gender (just not female/male, and only in verb phrases)

My current reading of B. Jagersma’s astonishingly fine grammar of the first known written human language, Sumerian, reminds me to dash off a technical point that I ought to be emphasizing, because everyone has assumed it to be impossible: Chinuk Wawa, or call it Chinook Jargon, does have grammatical gender! Folks too often have assumed, without checking for evidence, that a pidgin/creole language can’t have gender. Whoops. Image credit: “Non-Bi…Portland, Oregon · Portland Read Article

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

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

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

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

1886, WA: Olney appointed interpreter

I need to go find this in Rome…!

Chinook Jargon does have gender (just not female/male, and only in verb phrases)

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