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M XIV the CHINOOK JARGON ____m XIV THE CHINOOK JARGON AND HOI Cramolsy press, 1863. of Puget Sound. (Mss.) Tulalip, 1900. able to note a great share of the changes Po Chamberlain. Words of Algonkian or- which have taken place. The dictiona- Gill. Dictionary, (ninth edition), igin in the Chinook Jargon, in Science, ries of Gill, Hibben, Tate, Lowman and land, 1882; 1884; 1887; 1889; 1891. vol 18, 1891. Hanford and Good are all small; are in Good. Dictionary. Victoria, 1880. Charency. Review of Horatio Hale's as condensed form as possible, being in- Green. Extracts from the report of "International Idiom," in Le Museon, vol. tended for pocket use for travellers, exploring tour on the N. W. coast 10, 1891. traders and learners, and in this way America in 1829, in the missionary H Clough. On the existence of mixed have done good work for what they were aid, vol. 26, pp. 343-345. Boston, 1830 languages. London, 1876. intended. The two latter, however, only Haines. The American Indian. C Cook. A voyage to the Pacific Oceon, have the Chinook English part. The cago, 1888 vol. 2, pp. 335-336; vol. 3, pp. 540-546. dictionary of Durieu is very meager, Hale. United States exploring expe London, 1785. while that of Demers and St. Onge is tion vol. 6, Philadelphia, 1846. An Coomes. Dictionary. Seattle, 1891. out of print, and both are intended rath- ternational Idiom. London, 1890. Cox. Adventures on the Columbia Riv- er more for use by the Catholics than Hazlitt. British Colurtbia and V: er, vol. 2, p. 134. London, 1831. The Co- by the public." . "Having used it couver Island. London, 1858. The Gr lumbia River. London, 1832 (2 vols). (Jargon) for eighteen years, having Gold Fields of Cariboo. London, 1862 Adventures on the Columbia River. N. talked in it, sung in it, prayed and Jewitt. A narrative of the adventu Y., 1832. preached in it, translated considerable and sufferings of John R. Jewitt,-(wi Crane. The Chinook Jargon; a review into it, and thought in it, I thought I ten by Roland Alsop). Middletown, 11 of Hale, in Brighton (England) Herald, knew a little about the language, but Second edition, 1815. N. Y., 1816; M no. 4883, p. 4, July 12, 1890. when I began to write this dictionary I dietown, 1816; Middletown, 1820; Ec Demers. Definitio Dogmatis Immac- found that there was very much which burgh, 1824; Ithaca, 1849, 1851. ulatae Conceptionis Beatissimae. (The I did not know about it, but which I Captive of Nootka, by Peter Par] Dogma is first given in latin, followed by wished to know in order to make this Philadelphia, 1861; 1869, and various c the translation into the Chinook Jargon.) dictionary as perfect as it should be. er editions. Typis Joannis Mariae Shea, Neo Ebora- This is especially so in regard to the Lathamn. The natural history of censis, 1860. pronunciation of words which are not varieties of man, London, 1850. Demers, Blanchet, and St. Onge. Dic- used on Puget Sound, the introduction of Lee and Frost. Ten years in Ores tionary, Catechism, Prayers' and Hymns. new words, and the marking of those N. Y., 1844. Montreal, 1871. which are obsolete. In preparing these Le Jeune. Practical Chinook Jar Dictionary of Indian Tongues . pages, I have tried to note the follow- vocabulary, Kamloops, 1886, 1892. K Tsimpsean, Hydah, and Chinook Jar- ing items,-the different ways of spell- loops Wawa, a periodical in the Chin gon. Victoria, 1862; 1865. ing each word with the authority for Jargon, 1891, etc. Chinook Prime Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon. each, the proper pronunciation, the ori- Chinook and Shorthand, 1892. (For the most part a reprint, with omis- gin, part of speech, meaning, the place Leland. The Chinook Jargon, in sions, of Gibbs-Pilling). Victoria, 1871; where it is used, if used at all, a sen- James Gazette. vol. 17, no. 2529, p 1877; 1883; 1887; 1889, etc., to 1908. tence or more to show the use of a large London, July 13, 1888. An Internatit Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon. share of the words, and the phrases Idiom, a review of Hale, in the Satur Olympia, 1873. which are derived from a combination Review, vol. 30. no 1822, pp. 377- Dunn. History of the Oregon Terri- of words, which answer to a single word London, Sept. 27, 1890. tory. London, 1844; 1846. in English."-Skokomish, Union City, Lionnet. Vocabulary, Washing Durieu. Bible History . translat- March, 1893. 1853. ed into the Chinook Jargon. Benziger, Eells. How Languages Grow, in Ad- Macdonald. British Columbia and - N. Y., Cincinnati, Chicago, and Kam- vance, March 25, and July 8, 1875,-re- couver's Island, London, 1862. loops, B. C., 1893. lates wholly to the Chinook Jargon. Chi- Macfie. Vancouver Id. and B. C., I Eells. Manuscript Dictionary of the cago, 1875. Hymns in the Chinook Jar- don, 1865. Chinook Jargon, 5 vols. folio. Note from gon, Portland, 1878; 1889. The Chinook Macleod. Historv of the Devotion Eells' Introduction: "A number of dic- Jargon, in the Seattle Weekly Post-In- the Blessed Virgin Mary in America, tionaries have been published in the telligencer, vol. 1, no. 52, p. 4, column 8, York, 1866 Chinook Jargon language, and it may Seattle, September 29, 1882. History of Montgomerie and De Horsey. A seem superfluous to write another; still Indian Missions, Philadelphia, 1882. Ten Words collected from the langu: thus far all of them are small and are Years of Missionary Work. Boston, 1886. spoken bv the Indians in the neigh based on the language as it was forty or The Twana, Chemakum, and Klallam In- hood of the Columbia River and Pu0 fifty years ago. Gibbs' Dictionary was dians, in Smithsonian Institution, Annual Sound. London, 1848. for many years by far the best, and is Rept. of the Board of Regents for 1887, Nicoll. The Chinook language or yet in many respects, as it gives the ori- part 1, pp. 605-681. Washington, 1889. gon, in Popular Science Monthly, vol gin of nearly all the words and much Aboriginal geographic names in the state pp. 257-261, N. Y , 1889. other valuable information, but it was of Washington, in American Anthropol- Norris. The Calumet of the Col written nearly forty years ago. I have ogist, vol. 5, pp. 27-35. Washington, 1892. Philadelphia, 1883. used it very much in preparing this Gallatin. Hale's Indians of N. W. Palmer. Journal of Travels over work. Hale's Trade Language of Ore- America, in American Ethnological Soc. Rocky Mountains, Cincinnati, 1847; gon or Chinook Jargo'n is recent and is Trans., vol 2. N. Y., 1848. 1851; 1852. excellent, especially in its Introductory Gatschet. Indian languages of the Parker. Journal of an exploring part; far better than any which preceded Pacific states and territories, in Maga- beyond the Rockv Mountains . it, but that excellent man and scholar zine of American Hist., vol. 1, pp. 145- the years 1835-37, Ithaca, 1838; has labored under the disadvantage of 171. N. Y., 1877. 1842: 1844; Auburn, 1846. not having mingled much with those Gibbs. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Col- Phillips. Totem Tales, Chicago, who have used the language for lections (161), A Dictionary of the Chi- eral editions. about fifty years, and so has been un- nook Jargon. Washington, 1863. N. Y., Pilling. Bibliography of the Chii.
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