Some CJ borrowings around here

[Bernard Schulmann - home]

Hey there all

The local aborignal language has integrated some French words such as
leputay for bottle and nkli for key and lasel for salt.

The suffix -men is some uses very clearly a borrowing from english
(local St'at'imc word for American was bostonman and ts'inamen being a
chinese person (sp on both))

But at the same time I have found there are some words that are oddly
close to German, but clearly not borrowed (I am a native German speaker)

In the one St'at'imc community of Ts'kw'aylaxw, there are certain words
people consider 'indian' but at are CJ - best example I know is mowich
for deer (the St'at'imc word being Ni(sp?))

yours


Bernard Schulmann
Lillooet BC

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>     CHINOOK Digest - 22 Oct 2003 to 4 Nov 2003 (#2003-99)
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>       Table of contents:
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>     * Suffix -men in Thompson Salish <#S1>
>     * "My BC First Nations language is...:" Chinook Jargon <#S2>
>     * Jewitt and Maquinna, weght klaska iskum lemah <#S3>
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>     # Suffix -men in Thompson Salish
>           * Suffix -men in Thompson Salish
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>             (11/04)
>             From: "David D. Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
>     # "My BC First Nations language is...:" Chinook Jargon
>           * "My BC First Nations language is...:" Chinook Jargon
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>             (11/04)
>             From: "David D. Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
>     # Jewitt and Maquinna, weght klaska iskum lemah
>           * Jewitt and Maquinna, weght klaska iskum lemah
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>             From: "David D. Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
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