Math from a Chinuk Wawa speaker

[Ros' Haruo]

Coupla questions:

1) how would the larger numbers (especially 500,000) have been read aloud or
written out in Kamploops-type spoken Wawa?

2) do your quotation marks around "shikhanc" correspond to punctuation in
the text, or did you add them to highlight the loanword?

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>From: David Robertson <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
>Reply-To: David Robertson <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: Math from a Chinuk Wawa speaker
>Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 17:40:32 -0400
>
>"Kopa Kolwatir, Mois Tlakamnaskat iaka kolan kanawi katolik liplit klaska
>500,000 kanawi kanamokst, pi iaka wawa:  Klunas kansih lili iht man iskom
>klaska lima "shikhanc" kanawi pi iaka kopit.  Pus iaka aiak, pi iaka
>shikhanc 20 kopa iht minit, 1200 kopa iht awr, 12000 iht son, klunas wik
>saia iht mun pi sitkom, pi iaka kopit shikhanc kanawi."
>
>I won't give a word-by-word breakdown, but here's my translation of this
>excellent math problem:
>
>"At Coldwater, BC, Moise Tlakamnaskat heard that all the Catholic priests
>number 500,000 in total, and he said, 'Who knows how long it'd take a man
>to finish shaking hands with all of them.  If he hurried, and shook hands
>with 20 in a minute, 1200 in an hour, 12000 a day, it might be almost a
>month and a half before he finished shaking hands with all of them."
>
>(Note, there's lots of mention in Kamloops Wawa of the custom of shaking
>hands with priests & others.  This bit came from issue #129 [June 1895],
>page 87.)
>
>--Dave R
>
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