Indian CJ pronunciation sources and a few words

[James Crippen]

I have a couple of questions I'd like to ask the community. The first
is, does anyone have a reference for a "Chinuk Wawa" dictionary, i.e.
a dictionary of words and pronunciations used by Grande Ronde
speakers? How about anything similar for other Indian forms of CJ? All
I can find are English or French wordlists and dictionaries and they
give me little clue as to what the Indian pronunciations of various
words might have been. I'm especially interested in sources that give
good reflections of more northern speech such as interior and northern
BC speakers, but I'll take anything.

The reason I'm wondering is because I'm working on loanword phonology
in Tlingit, how borrowings are adapted to fit Tlingit's rather
peculiar sound system. (It lacks /l/, /m/, /b/, /p/, and /f/, among
others.) Many of the loans are from CJ rather than English, and
they've gone through some pretty peculiar changes, e.g. "waashdan"
from "bastan". So if I could get examples of CJ terms from northern
Indian speakers, I could get a better idea of how these loans were
transformed during the borrowing process. Maybe I could even
half-assedly reconstruct a Tlingit pronunciation of CJ in the process.

The other question is about a couple of CJ vocabulary terms. What are
words in CJ for "reindeer/caribou", "mountain goat", "Dall/mountain
sheep", and "moose" (distinct from cattle)? Were these always local
native terms or were there widespread CJ terms for these indigenous
animals?

Thanks,
James

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