Lower Chinook
Lower Chinook is a dialect of the Chinook spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Lower Chinook | |
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Tsinúk | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Columbia River Valley |
Ethnicity | 140 (2000 census)[1] |
Extinct | (date missing)[2] |
Chinookan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | chh |
Glottolog | chin1286 [3] |
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.
gollark: Oh, metis contains things now?
gollark: Yep!
gollark: SO VERY OFTEN I wanted to split a string in some way. But Lua doesn't have the ability to do that. It is very annoying.
gollark: Oh, a big one Lua doesn't have for some stupid reason - SPLITTING STRINGS.
gollark: Might be useful to add that to the potatOS `*` operator support on strings, somehow.
References
- Lower Chinook at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Campbell (1997) American Indian Languages; Mithun (2001) The Languages of Native North America
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Clatsop-Shoalwater Chinook". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Chinook (Tsinúk) at Omniglot. Retrieved 2017-06-23
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