Lower Chinook
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| Lower Chinook | |
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| Tsinúk | |
| Region | Columbia River Valley |
| Ethnicity | 140 (2000 census)[1] |
| Extinct | (date missing)[2] |
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Chinookan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | chh |
| Glottolog | chin1286[3] |
Lower Chinook is a dialect of the Chinook spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Dialects[edit]
- Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern Oregon around the mouth of the Columbia River and the Clatsop Plains (†).
- Shoalwater (also known as Chinook proper), extinct (†) since the 1930s. Shoalwater was spoken in southwestern Washington around southern Willapa Bay.
References[edit]
- ^ Lower Chinook at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Campbell (1997) American Indian Languages; Mithun (2001) The Languages of Native North America
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chinook". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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