Lower Chinook Explained

Lower Chinook
Nativename:	Tsinúk
States:	United States
Region:	Columbia River Valley
Ethnicity:	140 (2000 census)
Extinct:	in the 1930s
Ref:	^[1]
Familycolor:	American
Fam1:	Chinookan
Iso3:	chh
Glotto:	chin1286
Glottorefname:	Clatsop-Shoalwater Chinook

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.

References

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

Notes and References

1. Campbell (1997) American Indian Languages; Mithun (2001) The Languages of Native North America