Gibbs

[hzenk at PDX.EDU]

Jeff is right.  The "Alphabetical vocabulary..." is Chinookan (primarily Lower
Chinook and Clatsop I think, though I haven't looked at it in a good while),
the "Dictionary..." is Chinook Jargon.  They're completely different, no
confusion about it:  Multnomah County's catalogue data is in error.  Henry

Quoting Jeffrey Kopp <jeffreykopp at ATT.NET>:

> At 07:21 PM 10/21/2003, Ros' Haruo wrote:
> >In what ways does the "Alphabetical Vocabulary" differ from the
> "Dictionary"?
>
> The former was an attempt to record Chinookan (not the Jargon) is it was in
> the the 1840s-50s. It is brief and Gibbs admits in the foreword it is
> incomplete.
>
> I'd considered putting a copy on the Web site to show the difference
> between Chinookan with the Jargon, but decided it would just add to the
> confusion.
>
> (If anybody wants to send me a photocopy of something which might
> accomplish this better, please let me know.)
>
> Jeff