"Ankuttie" Chinook,a language standardized for an odd purpose: Writing one word ata time...was Re: [Fwd: Re: "Tanasvale" in Portland, Oregon]

[John Michael Greer]

Klahowya sihks,

"Klahanie" is pretty standard spelling, at least here in the Puget Sound
area.

Another CJ word that shows up a lot locally is Tukwila -- the name of a
Seattle suburb.

John Michael Greer


>From: Mike Cleven <ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM>
>Reply-To: Mike Cleven <ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM>
>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: Re: "Ankuttie" Chinook,a language standardized for an odd
>     purpose: Writing one word ata time...was Re: [Fwd: Re:
>"Tanasvale" in Portland, Oregon]
>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:40:33 -0700
>
>Dave Robertson wrote:
> >
> > Hayash mersi, Jeff,
> >
> > As usual your energy makes for creative results.
> >
> > AnyWho sounds like a neat research tool, and of course we should keep in
>mind the variant spellings that are used in the Old Style for many Chinook
>Jargon words.
> >
> > But it's remarkable how many CJ words there are which have gained
>virtually standardized spellings in the English alphabet:  "skookum",
>"kloshe", "illahee", "wawa", "chuck", "hiyu" or "hi-yu".
> >
> > Can any of you think of others?
>
>Tyee.  Hyas.  Saltchuck (technically not a separate entry because of
>"chuck", but more widely used in BC English than the latter).  Cultus
>(at least in BC).  Tenas/tenass and hyak/hyack come to mind as examples
>of words where there are two or three standard spellings; most of these
>aren't in current English, of course; konamoxt/kunamoxt,
>tamanass/tamahnous.


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