User:Nvolut

Babel user information

en-N	This user has a native understanding of English.

chn-3	This user has advanced knowledge of chinuk wawa.

de-3	Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf hohem Niveau.

fr-2	Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances intermédiaires en français.

es-2	Esta persona tiene un conocimiento intermedio del español.

Orthography of choice for Chinuk-wawa (chn)

All of my contributions will use the following keyboard-friendly adaptation of the Grand Ronde orthography. There is a one-to-one correspondence from that orthography to this, maintaining linguistic consistency and accuracy while addressing the question of ease of input, especially for non-technical users. It takes inspiration from and adapts conventions used in other keyboard-friendly American language orthographies, esp. that created for Taa-laa-wa Dee-ni' by Loren Bommelyn.

a - ats, “sister” / katsaq, “middle”
ae - phae, “pear”
b - bastvn, “white man”
bh - bhiktoriya, “Victoria”, as English “v” sound (very rare in CW)
ch - palach, “give” / chaku, “come”
ch’ - ch’uxh, “peeled” / ch’vtl’vxhw, “oyster
d - dala, “dollar” / dret, “true”
e - eklis, “The Church”, qhwelh, “?”
f - fitvl, “fiddle”, lvshaf, “eggs”
g - geyt, “gate” / gitvp, “get up, arise”
h - hihi, “play, laugh” / hayash, “great, big”
i - ikhanvm, “story” / ili7i, “earth, dirt, place, country”
j - lvsanjel, “belt”
k - kakwa, “thusly” / kvmtvks, “know”
kh - kha, “where” / khapa, “in, to, into, from, at, with”
kw - kwansvm, “always” / kwiskwis, “chipmunk”
khw - khwalh, “aunt” / khwata, “quarter dollar”
k’ - k’aw, “tied” / k’ilapay, “come back, return”
kw’ - kw’athin, “belly, stomach” / kw’ayc, “nine”
l - lakamin, “soup, stew, gravy” / lima, “hand”
lh - lhush, “good” / lhaxhayam, “Hello, poor, pitiful”
m - munk, “make, do” / mayka, “you, your”
n - nanich, “see, watch, look” / nayka, “I, me, my”
o - 7oho7oho, “cough”, liblo, “brown”
p - palach, “give” / pulakhli, “night, dark”
ph - phawaw / phikw’, “back”
p’ - p’us, ”cat” / p’ilhilh, “thick”
q - qisqis, “bluejay”
qh - qhata, “how?, how” / qhvnchi, “when?, when”
qw - qwet, “reaching, up to; extent” / qwinvm, “five”
qhw - qhwvlh, “hang up”
q’ - qvl, “hard” / q’oka, “choke”
qw’ - qw’vlan, “ear” / qw’vlh, “hit, strike, knock”
r - dret, “straight, true”
s - salal, “salal bush” / samvn, “salmon”
sh - shawash, “Indian” / shiksh, “friend”
t - tvmtvm, “heart” / tayi, “chief”
th - that, “uncle” / thil, “tired”
t’ - t’alapas, “coyote” / t’upa, “cow parsnip”
tl - tlakhvtlak, “grasshopper”
tl’ - tl’ap, “find, encounter” / tl’unas, “maybe, don’t know, who knows but that...”
ts - tsvqw, “water” / ats, “sister
ts’ - ts’vm, “mark, write” /
tw’ - tw’axh, “light, bright, fiery”
u - ulali, “berry” / ukuk, “this one, these, that one, those”
v - tvmtvm, “heart” / mvkhmvk, “eat”
w - wawa, “talk, say, tell” / wik, “no, not”
x - xulxul, “mouse, rat, thief”
xw - lhxwap, “hole”
xh - xhalaqlh, “open” / xhluyma, “different, other”
xhw - xhwani, “seagull”
y - yaka, “s/he, his, her” / ya7im, “tell, narrate, narrative”
z -
zh - ptsizha, “Petit Jean”
7 - 7oho7oho, “cough” / ili7i - “place, land, earth, country, dirt, etc.”

Example of a longer text in Chinuk Wawa

lhaxhayam. chester nayka nim. nayka chaku-kvmtvks chinuk-wawa khapa leyn-skul, khapa chanchifin, khapa uk khul chxi-hilu. nayka dret tiki chinuk-wawa, bvt nayka kwansvm tvmtvm nayka, qhata nayka munk-ts’vm chinuk-wawa khapa tw'axh-xhumxhum? kakwa nayka munk ukuk qhata-ts’vm. wik q’vl-pus-munk ts’vm t’u7an ukuk, khanawi mayka tl’ap khapa bastvn-ts’vm-laplash.