still speakers?

[Scott Tyler]

I could be wrong, I believe tenino is valley.
Don't know dizzy or badger.
Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yakima Belle" <yakimabelle at YAHOO.COM>
To: <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:30 AM
Subject: Re: still speakers?


> LaXayam Scott!
>
> Naika kopet kumtux wekt sitkum uk yiem; naika kumtux
> cultus moxt munk puk-puk. Ikt yaka eena; klonas moxt
> yaka solleks nenamooks (attempting to say "badger").
>
> I've forgotten most of the story; all I remember is
> that two animals were having a fight. One was beaver;
> maybe the other was badger.
>
> Anyhoo, anyone have the words for "badger" and
> "dizzy"?
>
> Does "tenino" mean valley?
>
> And is there a central vocabulary list for all the
> wonderful words that have been popping up here?
>
> --- Scott Tyler <s.tylermd at COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>
>> LaXayam Yakima tlooch!
>> hyas ankatti hiloo maika kamtaks koopa kwolan
>> Hello Yakima Belle!
>> Long time no Hear!
>> hiloo mayka kumtaks yiem koopa yakama illahi pi
>> tenino
>> tlaas chakoo yakwa
>> I never heard the story about the creation of the
>> Yakima Valley and Land.
>> LaXayam mayka wawa yaka
>> Please do tell.
>> tlonas tloosh mayka wawa yaka yiem.
>> Pehaps it would be good to hear a story.
>> tloosh nanich, mayka siks scott
>> take care, your friend scott
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Yakima Belle" <yakimabelle at YAHOO.COM>
>> To: <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
>> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 11:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: still speakers?
>>
>>
>> > Naika chako klak Yakima pi kumtux tenas Tsinuk.
>> Naika
>> > papa yaka munk kwolan kopa Tyee Beaver kuhnsih
>> yaka
>> > wawa ekhanim kahta Yakima kloshe illahee chako
>> mamook.
>> >
>> > (I come from Yakima and I know a little Chinook.
>> My
>> > father heard Chief Beaver tell the story of how
>> the
>> > Yakima Valley came to be created.)
>> >
>> > --- Dale McCreery <dr_mccreery at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hey, this is Dale McCreery, from Hazelton, and I
>> was
>> >> under the impression
>> >> that there were still some older people in town
>> that
>> >> knew cj, as the
>> >> language was used between the Babine and Gitksan
>> >> tribes, who both have
>> >> reserves in the Hazeltons. I was reading an
>> >> autobiography of a local doctor,
>> >> and it stated that jargon was still very useful
>> to
>> >> him in the sixties, and
>> >> although I haven't looked hard, I know at least
>> one
>> >> man who's father was a
>> >> good speaker (father died a few years ago).
>> >> I'm on in the area now, but plan on checking if
>> >> there are any people who
>> >> still speak when I get back.
>> >> Dale
>> >>
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>> >
>> >
>> >
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