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en-N This user has a native understanding of English. chn-3 This user has advanced knowledge of chinuk wawa. de-2 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf fortgeschrittenem Niveau. fr-2 Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances intermédiaires en français. es-2 Esta persona tiene un conocimiento intermedio del español.
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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.