FN Language

[Tony Johnson]

LaXayEm khanawi-Laksta (hello everyone),

Just a quick note from the past.  As I was going through old email I
found this quick post, and thought I should come to the defense of our
Kiksht (upriver Chinook) speakers.  There are at least five speakers of
Chinookan that I know of.  They all live on, or are associated with, the
Yakama and Warm Springs reservations.  ALqi wEXt.

Tony A. Johnson
Grand Ronde, OR

>>> "David D. Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU> 11/06/2003 7:33:09 AM
>>>
LhaXayam,

The respondents could have been from the mouth of the Columbia, though
FPCF's survey was of BC First Nations people; however it's very
unlikely
they spoke Chinook as opposed to CJ, I feel.  Though not a Chinookan
specialist, I believe there are no speakers of the relevant Chinookan
languages left.

--Dave R.



On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:12:56 -0800, Bernard Schulmann - home
<bernard.schulmann at LILLONET.CA> wrote:

>Could not the answers also have been people from the mouth Columbia
and
>were speakers of the Chinook Aboriginal Language and did not mean
jargon?
>
>Bernard Schulmann
>Lillooet BC