#Chinuk Wawa

[wawa-pi-wawa-pi-wawa]

kʰanawi tilixam nsayka wawa "masi" kʰapa shawash tilixam pus munk-ɬush isaɬx̣, waptʰu, pʰepʰa, c̓hapa, shakʰolat, pʰəmpkʰin, skwash, pi x̣luyma məkʰmək nayka kʰəpit-kəmtəks. msayka munk-ɬush pus miɬayt kʰanawi-qʰa.

Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally

[redtail-lol]

Actually so happy to have found my tribe's language. At least one of them. This is my first step to reconnecting: learning the language. I found an app dedicated to teaching it I'm gonna try it out.

[specialkindofidiot]

Thought this should be on Tumblr

[wawa-pi-wawa-pi-wawa]

anqati ulx̣ayu yaka ɬk̓up. bət alta ɬush yaka.

[littlewritingrabbit]

Nah cheechako :-D

Naika nanitch maika kopa Chinook Wawa tag pe naika kumtux halo tillikum klaska wawa okook lalang kahkwa klap maika blog mammook naika tumtum kloshe.

Mashiem pe kloshe sun!

Tlahowya!!

Naika hayu youtl pus naika blog mamook maika tumtum tloosh! Qata maika chako-kumtuks Chinuk Wawa? Naika nanich olman dictionaries, pi alta naika tlatawa kopa video-call pus wawa kanumokst tilikum, but naika kwolan kopa Grand Ronde yaka mamook skool kopa Chinuk Wawa ^-^

Tloosh sun kopa maika wuht!

[bigsoggyballs]

Tried translating the first few pages of Golden Kamuy into Chinuk Wawa; pages with illustrated gore below the cut

I’m a complete beginner; this was only possible with copious amounts of looking up words and grammar in the dictionary. I have no doubt I have made numerous errors. If anyone more experienced with the language wants to correct me, please please do so!!

[wawa-pi-wawa-pi-wawa]

tsiltsil sax̣ali saltsəqw iliʔi

[seaslimes]

LMAO, pardon the double-posting about the subject, but I made a post about customizing a Chinuk Wawa keyboard & Tumblr ate it because of all the links. You can check it out here: [AKA, in the replies of this post, I'll add a link!]

[play-now-my-lord]

LRB: I was reading the Chinuk Wawa dictionary years ago as part of a personal project and distinctly remember a word in there which was used to gloss the (outmoded, anthropological) term "berdache", something I'd best get across in english orthography from memory as "pi-klooxman" (the actual orthography is different but i'm bad at IPA) - nearest etymological english equivalent something like the modern "femme" or maybe the 2010s "demigirl" - anyway, this was a term which expressed gender-variance, seemed to specifically imply transfemme-adjacent gender-variance, and which the primary sources swore up and down was not an existing concept in local ndn society, while also explicitly naming a distant relative called "Nancy Jack" or "Jack Nancy" as an example. Cognitive dissonance babey

[wawa-pi-wawa-pi-wawa]

mayka t̓uʔan tənəs-ikta yakwa

you’ve got a lil’ somethin’ right there

[yuritypology]

Not to downplay the achievement of the Chinuk Wawa Game of Thrones fanfiction but like Chinuk Wawa is one of the most syntactically tame Native American languages in comparison to the others. I've seen drill rap music in Kichwa so you need more to impress me.

[heliopauseentertainments]

К сожалению, я весь день работаю, но редко в эти дни у меня есть вожмостность говорить (или писать) по-русски, потому что не знаю других русскоговорящих.

Русский язык не мой родной и не говорю на нём свободно, но много лет я его изучал, когда учился стать языковедом.

Я и говорю мало и по-немецки, и по-словенски, и чуть-чуть на иврите, и чуть-чуть на идише, и чуть-чуть на… … как его называется—на английском зовут "Chinuk Wawa" или "Chinook Jargon."

С Днём Языков!

[wawa-pi-wawa-pi-wawa]

tk̓up q̓alis pi yaka tilixam

Albino raccoon

[bilbobagginsomebabez]

godspeed

[kl-writes]

It’s very weird when you find a cognate between languages that really shouldn’t be related.

Chinuk Wawa: Has the word “hyak,” which means “to hasten.” (Trade language of the West during the 1800s between many Native American languages, English, and French.)

Japanese: Has the word “hayaku” which means “quickly.”

[endangeredlanguagechallenge]

Chinook Jargon Duolingo

There is a request to Duolingo to add a course for Chinook Jargon, a lingua franca pidgin/creole spoken in the Pacific Northwest. In order to help this endeavour, please upvote the following post in the Duolingo forum and feel free to comment on it or reblog this announcement. Hayu masi!

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/34963484