CHINOOKi^N LANGUAGES. 



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Le Jeune (J. M. K.) — Coiitiinicd. 

 r ] [Two lines Ht«!ii()grapliic charac- 

 ters.] I Chinook Hymns. | 



Kainloops. B. C. | 1891 



Cover title verso ali>lial»et and iiunioral.s, no 

 iiisido title; text in .stonograpliic characters 

 pp. 1-32, alphabet recto of hack cover, list of 

 publications by Father LeJouno verso of back 

 cover, 32°. 



Contents asunder (ith^ next above; the verso 

 of the front cover in tho one edition forms the 

 recto of tho back cover in tho other. 



Coines ieen : Pillinj;. 



[ ] Elements | of | .sliort hand. | Part 



I- I 



Kainloops. | 1891 



Cover title verso the alphabet, text pp. [1-32], 

 alphabet and numerals recto of back cover, list 

 of publications by Father Lo Jeune verso of 

 back cover, 32°. Inserted by Father Lo Jeune 

 as a substitute for tho lacking nos. 7-8 of the 

 Kamloops Wawa, Oct., 1891. 



Contains no Chinookan material. 



Copies seen : Pilling. 



[ ] Chinook | primer. | By which | 



The Native of British Columbia | and 

 any other persons | Speaking tho Chi- 

 nook I are taught | to read and write 

 Chinook | in Shorthand | in the Space 

 of a few hours. | Price : 10 Cents. | 



Mimeographed at | St Louis Mis- 

 sion. I Kamloops, B. C. | May, 1892. 



Cover title as above, ver.so advertisement, no 

 inaido title ; text pp. 1-8. advertisement recto of 

 back cover, verso list of publications by Father 

 Le Jeune, 16"-'. 



See p. 52 for facsimile of tho cover title. 



Copies seen : Pilling. 



A comparison of the facsimiles of the title- 

 pages of tho hymn book and ])rimer with the 

 printed text of the same will show a few differ- 

 ences of punctuation. The printed text is cor- 

 rect; the facsimiles are defective in that re- 

 spect. 



A play I in. Chinook. | Joseph and 



his Brethren. | Act I. | By J. M. R. 

 Le Jeune O. M. I. 



Kamloops, B. C. | July 1^* 1892, 



Cover title (manuscript, in the haudwritint; 

 of its author), no inside title ; text (in Chinook 

 Jargon, stenographic characters) pp. 1-20, 16-. 



Copies seen ; Pilling. 

 Chinook | First Reading Book | in- 

 cluding I Chinook Hymns, Syllabary | 

 and Vocabulary. | By j J. M. R. Le Jeune 

 O. M. I. I Price: 10 Cents. | [Eight 

 lines stenographic characters.] | 



Kamloops. | 1893 



Title verso Chinook alphabet 1 ]. text in 

 stenographic characters, with headings in Eng- 

 lish and Jargon in italics, pp. 1-[18], 16°. 



Le Jeune (.1. M. R. ) — Continued. 



Hymns, pp. 1-11. —'Exercises, i)p. 12-15. — 

 Vocabulary, i)p. 16-18. 

 Copies seen : Pilling. 



See Durieu (P.) 



Pere Jean-^Lirie Kaiihael Lo Jeune was born 

 at Pleybcrt Christ, Finistere, Franco. April 12, 

 1855, and came to British Columoia as a mis- 

 sionary i)riest in October, 1879. Ho made his 

 first acquaintance with tho Thompson Indians 

 in June, 1880, and lias been among them ever 

 since. Ho began at onco to study their lan- 

 guage and was able to express him.self ea.sily 

 in that language after a few months. When he 

 first came he found about a dozen Indians that 

 knew a few prayers and a little of a catechism 

 in tho Thompson language, composed mostly 

 by Right llev. Bishop Durieu, O. M. I., the 

 present bishop of New Westminster. From 

 1880 to 1882 he traveled only between Yale and 

 Lytton, 57 miles, trying to make acquaintance 

 with as many natives as he could in that dis- 

 trict. Since 1882 he has had to visit also the 

 Nicola Indians, who speak the Thompson lan- 

 guage and the Douglas Lake Indians, who 

 are a branch of the Okanagan family, and had 

 occasion to become acquainted with the Okan- 

 agan language, in Avhicb he composed and 

 revised most of the prayers they have in use up 

 to the present. Since June 1, 1891, he has also 

 had to deal with the Shushwap Indians, and, 

 as the language is similar to that in u.se l)y the 

 Indians of Thompson River, ho very soon 

 became familiar with it. 



He tried several years ago to teach the In- 

 dians to read iu the English characters, but 

 without avail, and two years ago lie undertook 

 to teach them in shorthand, exijerimeuting first 

 upon a young Indian boy who learned the short- 

 hand after a single lesson and began to help 

 him teach the others. The work went on 

 slowly until last winter, when they began to bo 

 interested in it all over the country, and since 

 then they have been learning it with eagerness 

 and teaching it to one another. 



Leland (Charles Godfrey). The Chinook 

 Jargon. 



In St. James Gazette, vol. 17, no. 2529, p. 6, 

 London, July 13, 1888, folio. (Pilling.) 



General remark.s concerning the language, 

 with words, phrases, and sentences therein. 



[ ] An international idiom. 



In the Saturday Review, vol. 30, no. 1822, pp. 

 377-378, London, Sept. 27, 1890, folio. 



A review of Hale (H.), An international 

 idiom, giving a number of examples. 



Lenox: This word following a title or within 

 parentheses after a note indicates that a copy of 

 the work referred to has been seen by the com- 

 piler in the Lenox Library, New York City. 



[Lionnet {Ph-e — ).] Vocabulary | of the 

 I Jargon or trade language | of Oregon. 



