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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
  
Chinookan Lower 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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