Lower Chinook
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| Lower Chinook | |
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| Tsinúk | |
| Region | Columbia River Valley |
| Ethnicity | 140 (2000 census) |
Native speakers | 7 (2007)[1] |
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Chinookan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | chh |
Lower Chinook /tʃɪˈnʊk/,[2] also 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.
References
- ↑ Lower Chinook reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
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