Kamloops Wawa

The Kamloops Wawa (Chinook Jargon: π›°…π›±π›°™β€Œπ›°†π›±›π›°‚π›°œ π›±œβ€Œπ›±œβ€Ž, "Talk of Kamloops") was a newspaper published by Father Jean-Marie-RaphaΓ«l Le Jeune, superior of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada, beginning May 25, 1891, and continuing into the 1900s. The contents of the Kamloops Wawa were near-entirely written using Le Jeune's adaptation of the French Duployan shorthand writing system, called "chinuk pipa" in Chinook Jargon itself.

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Kamloops Wawa

The Kamloops Wawa (Chinook Jargon: π›°…π›±π›°™β€Œπ›°†π›±›π›°‚π›°œ π›±œβ€Œπ›±œβ€Ž, "Talk of Kamloops") was a newspaper published by Father Jean-Marie-RaphaΓ«l Le Jeune, superior of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada, beginning May 25, 1891, and continuing into the 1900s. The contents of the Kamloops Wawa were near-entirely written using Le Jeune's adaptation of the French Duployan shorthand writing system, called "chinuk pipa" in Chinook Jargon itself.

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