In this article, the topic Upper Chinook language will be addressed from a broad and detailed perspective, with the aim of providing readers with a complete and enriching vision of this matter. Through a comprehensive and rigorous analysis, different aspects and approaches related to Upper Chinook language will be explored, in order to provide relevant and up-to-date information. The various implications and consequences that Upper Chinook language can have in different contexts will also be examined, as well as possible solutions or recommendations to address this issue effectively. With a critical and reflective perspective, this article aims to offer the reader solid and well-founded knowledge about Upper Chinook language, thus promoting greater understanding and awareness about it.
Upper Chinook | |
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Kiksht | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Columbia River |
Extinct | 11 July 2012 with the death of Gladys Thompson |
Chinookan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | wac |
Glottolog | wasc1239 |
ELP | Wasco-Wishram |
Upper Chinook, endonym Kiksht, also known as Columbia Chinook, and Wasco-Wishram after its last surviving dialect, is a recently extinct language of the US Pacific Northwest. It had 69 speakers in 1990, of whom 7 were monolingual: five Wasco and two Wishram. In 2001, there were five remaining speakers of Wasco.
The last fully fluent speaker of Kiksht, Gladys Thompson, died in July 2012. She had been honored for her work by the Oregon Legislature in 2007. Two new speakers were teaching Kiksht at the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in 2006. The Northwest Indian Language Institute of the University of Oregon formed a partnership to teach Kiksht and Numu in the Warm Springs schools. Audio and video files of Kiksht are available at the Endangered Languages Archive.
The last fluent speaker of the Wasco-Wishram dialect was Madeline Brunoe McInturff, and she died on 11 July 2006 at the age of 91.
Kathlamet has been classified as an additional dialect; it was not mutually intelligible.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
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plain | sibilant | lateral | plain | labial | plain | labial | |||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||||||
Plosive/ Affricate |
plain | p | t | ts | tɬ | tʃ | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ |
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | tsʼ | tɬʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | qʼ | qʷʼ | ||
voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɡʷ | |||||||
Continuant | voiceless | s | ɬ | ʃ | x | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | ||
voiced | w | l | j | ɣ | ɣʷ |
Vowels in Kiksht are as follows: /u a i ɛ ə/.