Lower Chinook
Native American language formerly spoken in the Pacific Northwest
| Lower Chinook | |
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| Tsinúk | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Columbia River Valley |
| Ethnicity | 140 (2000 census)[1] |
| Extinct | in the 1930s[2] |
Language family | Chinookan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | chh |
| Glottolog | chin1286 |
Lower Chinook is a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America.
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
- Chinook (Tsinúk) at Omniglot. Retrieved 2017-06-23
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Penutian languages
- Kathlamet
- Lower Chinook
- Upper Chinook
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