Lower Chinook

Lower Chinook, also simple Chinook or Chinook proper, is a highly endangered language of the US Pacific Northwest.

Dialects

• Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern Oregon around the mouth of the Columbia River and the Clatsop Plains (†).
• Shoalwater (also known as Chinook proper), now extinct (†). Shoalwater was spoken in southwestern Washington around southern Willapa Bay.

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