Kinkade, Dictionary of the Moses-Columbia language (nxa'amxcin)

[David Robertson]

He compiled it, the Colville Confederated Tribes of Nespelem, Washington
printed it, folks at UVic work on this language so I found a copy.

Page 97, words for "other people"...

There's relatively little trace of Chinuk-Wawa in this part of the
language, but the word for Spanish (people) is /spanyul/ with several funny
marks on it to show stress and retraction.  This is about the same as in
e.g. Grand Ronde.

The other word for Spanish, and for French, is /sama'/: That's the same
word used in the more northerly Interior Salish languages too...like
Thompson, Shuswap, Lillooet.  (But the general word for White people is a
southern Interior word, sometimes said to come from Nez
Perce: /suyapEnExw/.)

The word for Shuswaps in this dictionary is /suswap/, stressed on the end.
That's interesting in the same way that the Nootkan words in CJ are
interesting: the influence of non-Salish languages is clear here.  The
Shuswaps' own word, and most other Salish people's word for them,
is /sExwEp/.  This /suswap/, which would be pronounced
approximately /shushwap/, is like the form used in English, French, or
Kamloops Wawa Chinook Jargon.

A word for Cayuse people is also given, /qayus/, with final stress.  Dunno
if this is a more or less "Indian" pronunciation.  Did the Cayuse call
themselves something like this, or is "Cayuse" an outsider name for them?

--Dave R

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