
kopa ukuk kaltash wawa pipa naika wawa kata ukuk liplit klaska mamuk chinuk pipa mamuk ayu masachi, kata ukuk skul liplit klaska mamook, kata aias wam kopa bisi, pi kata ukuk pipa tilikom mash kopa naika: boston man wawa #1 pi iht pipa tiv iaka mamuk tsim! wiht naika mamuk tsim tanas ukuk siisim iaka nim hansil pi gritil.
The Kaltash Wawa is a Chinook Jargon (aka Chinuk Wawa) language ‘newspaper’ published in BC’s shorthand alphabet – Chinuk Pipa – once widely used to write Chinook Jargon and other Indigenous language in British Columbia. This paper is written in Chinook Jargon as spoken and written in British Columbia as we can see in historical documents and as I have been taught (to the best of my ability of course).
Is “k” an upward or downward stroke?
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k is a downstroke. All the consonants except for l and r are downstrokes.
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