Lower Chinook
Lower Chinook is a dialect of the Chinook spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River.
| Lower Chinook | |
|---|---|
| Tsinúk | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Columbia River Valley |
| Ethnicity | 140 (2000 census)[1] |
| Extinct | (date missing)[2] |
Chinookan
| |
| 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.
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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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