TS Bulmer letter part 2 (Kamloops Wawa)

[hzenk at PDX.EDU]

Thanks very much, Dave.

Say, does anybody know anything about T.S. Bulmer, or more particularly, what
happened to the mass of Chinuk Wawa materials Pilling credits to him? (Pilling
pages 10-12).  He was evidently working on the definitive description of the
language, but none of it was ever published to my knowledge.  Pilling's list
includes Chinuk Wawa texts both by Eells and St. Onge; haven't checked through
it all, but I do know I've never heard of "Legends in Jargon, by Pere St. Onge,
with interlinear English translation..." anywhere else.  Are there Bulmer
Papers somewhere?  k'uy7 kakwa!  Henry

Quoting David Robertson <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>:

> {Here it is again, I hope more legible.--Dave}
>
> This is the 2nd installment of Dr. T.S. Bulmer's shorthand letter in
> Chinook Jargon. The first part was in KW #24, and I've already posted it
> here. Part 2 appears in KW #34 (10 July 1892, pages 6-7). Here it is with
> English translation between the lines. Part 3 will come soon.
>
>
> "Nawitka, nsaika komtaks ayu wawa mitlait
> "Indeed, we know there are lots of words
>
> kopa Boston Wawa; pi ayu taims Boston tilikom
> in English; and many times White people
>
> wawa tsipi wawa. Chinuk Wawa iaka
> speak wrong. Chinook Jargon
>
> drit tlus kopa Sawash: Spos klaska mitlait
> is very good for Indians: If they have
>
> xlwima lalang pi iaka drit tlus kopa Boston
> different languages[;] and it's very good for Whites
>
> pi kopa Sawash tilikom spos klaska tiki wawa
> and for Indian people if they want to talk
>
> kanamokst. Nawitka ukuk 'kaltash Chinuk Wawa'
> together. Indeed this 'worthless Chinook Jargon'
>
> iaka ilip tlus kopa ixt lalang kopa saia ilihi
> is better than another language from a distant place
>
> kax ayu Sawash mitlait. Ukuk Sawash mitlait
> where lots of Indians live. These Indians have
>
> ayu xlwima lalang. Iawa spos klaska mitlait
> many different languages. There if they have
>
> xlwima lalang klaska wawa kopit ixt lalang iaka
> different languages they talk just one language
>
> nim Sain Lalang, kakwa spos klaska wawa kopa
> called Sign Language, meaning they talk with
>
> klaska lima. Spos Sawash pi Boston tilikom
> their hands. If Indian and White people
>
> klaska tiki wawa kanamokst, klaska wawa ukuk
> want to talk together, they talk this
>
> Sain Lalang, lima lalang. Ixt man iaka nim
> Sign Language--hand language. One man named
>
> <Col. Garrick Mallery>, Kornil Girik Maliri,
> Colonel Garrick Mallery
>
> iaka drit komtaks ukuk lalang pi iaka mamuk ixt
> is fluent in this language and he wrote a
>
> buk kopa ukuk lalang. Dikshonri iaka nim.
> book in this language. It's called a dictionary.
>
> Kopa ukuk dikshanri iaka mamuk komtaks
> In this dictionary he shows
>
> kopa tilikom kopa kanawi lima wawa. Spos iaka
> people all the hand signs. He could
>
> mamuk komtaks tilikoms kopa ixt takamonak wawa."
> teach people from [=who speak] a hundred languages."
>
> --Dave R.
>
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