Jewitt etc

[Liland Brajant ROS']

Sally scripsit:
>
>There is a small amount of literature on that Nootka jargon or
>pre-pidgin or whatever it was -- an article by Sturtevant (in a
>newsletter: I forget the title, but it's from about 15 years
>ago, I think).  It's pretty clear, from the distorted phonology
>of the Nootka words in Chinook Jargon, that they were introduced
>into CJ by whites, or by Natives using Nootka Jargon, and not
>by Nootka speakers themselves.  The other really interesting
>thing about those Nootka-origin words in CJ is that, although
>there aren't all that many of them (a couple of dozen, maybe,
>or maybe fewer), they are mostly quite basic vocabulary items.

Are there any Portuguese-origin items in CJ?  (The prominence of the
relatively small number of Nootkan words in the CJ vocabulary reminded me
of the prominence and persistence of "sabe/sabi/saber/savvy" in many
English- and French-type pidgins that arose on the middens of earlier
Portuguese-based ones.)  Any of you sociolinguists care to pronounce on
the implications of the Nootkan in CJ for the analysis of the relative
prestige status of the Nootkan vis-a-vis the Chinookan tribes of the region?

Leland

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