<div>Very interesting, thank you, Dave.</div> <div>Again my question: why did he write "sh" (shaku) where a "ch" would be expected?</div> <div>Is this also a trait of the BC interior CW ?</div> <div> </div> <div>Francisc<BR><BR><B><I>David Robertson <ddr11@COLUMBIA.EDU></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">From a letter sent from Lillooet Flats, which I take it is the Native <BR>village on the, um, downriver side of town (my bad sense of direction...but <BR>I mean the one with the "Rancherie" sign):<BR><BR>"Kupa iakwa Lilwat ilihi kanawi stik klaska lifs shaku krin alta pi wik <BR>saia ulali shaku."<BR><BR>(Literally: at here Lillooet village all trees their leaves become green <BR>now and not faraway berries come)<BR><BR>= "Around here at Lillooet village, all the trees' leaves are turning green <BR>now, and soon the berries will come out." <BR><BR>Some very nice features
of this letter include:<BR><BR>* The writer often uses the shorthand letter <U>where we'd find an <O>in <BR>the Kamloops Wawa newspaper (which was the literary standard, you could <BR>say). This is not a misspelling, though. It's very hard to confuse those <BR>two letters in the shorthand. The <U>pronunciation is characteristic of <BR>good First Nations pronunciation of Chinuk Wawa.<BR><BR>** "Kupa iakwa" or <KOPA yakwa>in many old dictionaries is typical of BC <BR>interior CW. It has a meaning like "around here / hereabouts", as opposed <BR>to just plain "iakwa" which means "here". <BR><BR>*** The writer didn't feel the need to say "kupa" (kopa) before "Lilwat <BR>ilihi". This is another frequent feature of CW as used by BC interior <BR>Salish people. They used less prepositions than most of the non-Native <BR>people I've observed. <BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>--Dave R<BR><BR>To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'. To respond privately to the sender of a message,
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