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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 (†).
• Shoalwater (also known as Chinook proper), extinct (†) since the 1930s. Shoalwater was spoken in southwestern Washington around southern Willapa Bay.

Chinook Jargon is partially based on Chinook.

Comparison to Kathlamet and Wasco-Wishram

References

1. Lower Chinook at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Campbell (1997) American Indian Languages; Mithun (2001) The Languages of Native North America
3. "Chinook Words". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
4. "Kathlamet Words". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
5. "Wasco-Wishram Words". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2024-08-29.

• Chinook (Tsinúk) at Omniglot. Retrieved 2017-06-23

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