Lower Chinook

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Region Columbia River Valley Extinct (date missing) Glottolog chin1286		Ethnicity 140 (2000 census) ISO 639-3 chh
Language family ChinookanLower Chinook

Lower Chinook is a dialect of the Chinook spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Dialects

Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern Oregon around the mouth of the Columbia River and the Clatsop Plains (†).

Chinook Jargon

Shoalwater (also known as Chinook proper), extinct (†) since the 1930s. Shoalwater was spoken in southwestern Washington around southern Willapa Bay.

References

Lower Chinook Wikipedia

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