spakram

[Isaac M. Davis]

Klahawya, naika shiks,

I'm no expert on Thompson Salish (Nłaka'pmx), but I lived in Merritt and
worked on the reserve in Lower Nicola for three months. I wouldn't describe
it as being spoken 'in the Kamloops area'. Dave Robertson says that Shuswap
is the Salishan language spoken there, and that sounds right to me. A woman
I knew in Lower Nicola was a Shuswap speaker who'd married a man who was a
member of the Lower Nicola Indian Band, and she'd come from somewhere in
that direction.


Masi,

Isaac M. Davis

On 10/30/06, Francisc Czobor <fericzobor at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Klahowya!
>
> In Le Jeune's "Chinook Rudiments" (Kamloops Wawa No. 1739, 3 May 1924,
> http://chinookjargon.home.att.net/ljcr24.htm) there is a word for
> "flowers" not found elsewhere: "spakram" (on page 22; it appears also on
> page 23, in the name of one of the "thirteen moons" [months]: 5. spakram
> moon "flowery moon".)
> It seems that this word is from the Ntlakapmuk (Thompson), a Salishan
> language that, as far as I know, was spoken by the Native people in the
> Kamloops area.
> According to J.B. Good's "A vocabulary and outlines of grammar of the
> Nitlakapamuk or Thompson tongue (the Indian language spoken between Yale,
> Lillooet, Cache Creek and Nicola Lake) together with a phonetic Chinook
> dictionary, adapted for use in the province of British Columbia" (St. Paul's
> Mission Press, Victoria, B.C., 1880
> http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/02276/0002), the Thompson word for
> "flowers" is _spakum_. Saanich has a quite similar word: _speq'EN_ "flower"
> (http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Saanich/WordList/<http://www.cas.unt.edu/%7Emontler/Saanich/WordList/>
> ).
>
> Francisc
>
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