Lower Chinook

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Native American language formerly spoken in the Pacific Northwest

Lower Chinook
Tsinúk
Native to	United States
Region	Columbia River Valley
Ethnicity	140 (2000 census)
Extinct	in the 1930s
Language family	Chinookan Lower Chinook
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

1. ^ Lower Chinook at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. ^ Campbell (1997) American Indian Languages; Mithun (2001) The Languages of Native North America

• Chinook (Tsinúk) at Omniglot. Retrieved 2017-06-23

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