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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.