CJ lesson for 1/11/04---a little chi wawa

[Scott E Tyler]

To my friends in wawa illahi,
a bit niiyaa chii wawa a poem in wawa---Neah Bay chi wawa not to be confused
with Rez Dogs or chijuajuas
Below a poem from Farsi, some Farsi vocabulary, with a translation into
plain English, then a poetic rendition, and then
in chi wawa shantey,
tlush nanich,
Scott
chokardi. halghe dar gu.sham makon ja.na. fara.mu.sham


makon a.a za.do mafru.sham  zaman ya.d a.a ro dastam gir

u. = oo as in moose   a. = aw as in jaw

i. = i as in candi

chon = because, since          halghe = ring

dar = in            makon = don't           gush = ear         -am = me,my

faramush kardan = to forget              a.a za.d = to free

forush kardan = to sell                        be yad avardan = remember

yad amadan = remember                    gir kardan = to get caught

dastam begir = hold my hand               zaman = az man = from, by me



since you placed a ring in my ear, dear do not forget me,

neither free nor sell me, remember me and hold my hand



(provisional translation in the form of a poem)

Dearest,

since Thou of me a slave hast made,

in Thy mind let me not fade,

neither release nor barter me away,

remember me and in Thy hand

let mine stay

( below in niiya chi wawa )

taalis,

keXCi ma-mamook-miCimis nika miLayt,

wik' maali nika

wik' kooli tlaa pi hiloo makook naa

alta kwaansim kumtaks

pi iskam nika lemaa



----- Original Message -----
From: "David D. Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
To: <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 1:17 PM
Subject: CJ lesson for 1/11/04


> Hi, here's a reading selection for you to practice Chinook Jargon.  It's a
> paragraph from Kamloops Wawa.  Here's how it works...
>
>
> * -First there's a line of Jargon.  Line breaks follow the original.
> * An English gloss runs word-by-word below the Jargon.
> * And my translation into English runs on every third line.
> * <Items in angled brackets weren't in shorthand in the original.>
> * [Items in square brackets are added by me.]
> * (Numbers in parentheses refer to my notes after the paragraph.)
>
>
> -Taham tintin pi sitkom nsaika tlap kopa iht ilihi iaka nim
> ten hour and half we get to a place its name
> At ten-thirty we got to a place called
> -Fild.
> Field
> Field [in Alberta].
>
> -Iakwa nsaika nanich iht aias makmak haws, drit aias.
> here we see a big eating house(1), real big
> Here we saw a big inn, very big.
>
> -Pi kimta kopa ukuk makmak haws mitlait iht drit aias sahali
> and after from this eating house is(2) a real big(3) high
> And behind this inn was an extremely high
> -mawntin(4), iaka <10500> fut sahali kopa oihat; pi oihat
> mountain, it 10,500 feet high from path; and path
> mountain, 10,500 feet above the track(5); and the track
> -iaka <4050> sahali kopa solt chok.
> it 4,050 high from salt water
> is 4,050 [feet] above the sea.
>
> -Kimta wiht mitlait
> after also are
> Beyond, there are
> -mawntin <12000>, pi iht <13000> fut sahali kopa kah nsaika
> mountain 12,000 and one 13,000 feet high from where we
> mountains that are 12,000 and one even 13,000 feet above where we
> were
> -mitlait.
> were.
>
> (1) makmak haws:  literally "eating house," it's the Kamloops Wawa term
> for an inn where you can stay the night as well as get a meal.
> (2) mitlait:  basically "to be located somewhere," so it's understandable
> that the word can also be used for "to exist; there is/are..."  Sometimes,
> a further meaning of the word is "to have."
> (3) aias:  literally "big," it's also a word for "very" in Kamloops Wawa
> and in many varieties of Jargon.
> (4) mawntin:  another word for /lamotai/.
> (5) oihat:  a train journey is being described, so this word refers to the
> tracks of the railway.
>
> General note:  Jargon is different from English...it doesn't mark the time
> when something happened.  So, in English we can tell if something already
> happened, is happening, or will happen (like with "I ran" / "I'm
> running" / "I'll run").  In Jargon, each verb has just one form, so all
> three of those examples would be /naika kuli/.  Also, English clearly
> tells you whether just one thing, or more than one thing, is being talked
> about:  "mountain" has a very different meaning from "mountains."  There's
> just one form of each noun in Jargon, so these would both be /mawntin/.
> You have to pay close attention to what's being talked about when you're
> reading Jargon, or having a conversation in it.  Can you see why I've
> translated /mitlait/ sometimes as "is", sometimes as "are", and sometimes
> as "were"?  Can you also see why I had to translate /mawntin/
> as "mountain" in one place, and "mountains" in another?
>
> Best wishes on learning Jargon!  Special thanks to Keith Carlson and
SSHRC.
>
> --Dave R.