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• Title:Making Wawa : the genesis of Chinook jargon / George Lang.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lang, George, 1945-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY reserve collection Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: XXC L36 M35 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Nuu-chah-nulth--History.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Chinook jargon--History.
  Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--History.
  White people--Northwest, Pacific--Relations with Indians--History.
  Chinook Wawa language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
  
• Description:xiv, 198 p. : ill., facsims., maps ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:First nations languages.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-185) and index.
  Includes some text in Chinook jargon.
  
• ISBN:9780774815260
  0774815264 (cloth)
  
• Contents:Acknowledgments
  A note on orthography
  Introduction
  1 / The Nootka jargon
  2 / Pidgin Chinook
  3 / Approximations at Astoria
  4 / The hothouse of Fort Vancouver
  5 / Waves of Wawa
  Conclusion
  Appendix - Manuscript 195 : a partially annotated early glossary of Chinook jargon
  Chronology
  Notes
  References
  Index
  Illustrations
  Map 1 / Northwest Coast languages
  Map 2 / Vancouver Island coast from Nootka Sound to the Strait of Juan de Fuca
  Map 3 / From Grays Harbour through Shoalwater Bay to Baker's Bay (including Qwatsamuts)
  Map 4 / Language boundaries from Astoria to Portland
  Figure 3.1 / The typescript of Manuscript 195
  Figure 4.1 / Dale Kinkade's list of Lower Chehalis loan words into Wawa.