Lower Chinook facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Lower Chinook |
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|---|---|
| Tsinúk | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Columbia River Valley |
| Ethnicity | 140 (2000 census) |
| Extinct | in the 1930s |
| Language family |
Chinookan
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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.
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