Upper Chinook language
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| Upper Chinook | |
|---|---|
| Kiksht | |
| Spoken in | United States |
| Region | Columbia River |
| Native speakers | 69, of which 7 monolingual (1990 census) |
| Language family |
Chinookan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wac |
Upper Chinook, also known as Kiksht, Columbia Chinook, and Wasco-Wishram after its only living dialect, is a highly endangered language of the US Pacific Northwest. It had 69 speakers as of 1990, of which 7 were monolingual: five Wasco[1] and two Wishram. It is the last living Chinookan language.[citation needed]
[edit] Dialects
- Cascades, (also known as Watlalla or Watlala) now extinct (†).
- Clackamas, now extinct (†); was spoken in northwestern Oregon along the Clackamas and Sandy rivers.
- Hood River, now extinct (†).
- Multnomah (†) Multnomah spoken on Sauvie Island and in the Portland area in northwestern Oregon.
- Wasco-Wishram, still spoken but highly endangered.
- White Salmon, now extinct (†).
Kathlamet has been classified as an additional dialect, it is was not mutually intelligible.
[edit] References
- ^ Culture: Language. The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. 2009 (retrieved 9 April 2009)
[edit] Bibliography
- Sapir, Edward; Curtin, Jeremiah (1909). Wishram texts, together with Wasco tales and myths. E.J. Brill. ASIN: B000855RIW. http://www.archive.org/details/wishramtexts00sapirich.
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