Lower Chinook is a
Chinookan language
The Chinookan languages were a small family of languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples. Although the last known native speaker of any Chinookan language died in 2012, the 2009-2013 American Communi ...
spoken at the mouth of the
Columbia River on the west coast of
North America.
Dialects
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Clatsop
The Clatsop is a small tribe of Chinookan-speaking Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In the early 19th century they inhabited an area of the northwestern coast of present-day Oregon from the mouth of the Columbia ...
(Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern Oregon around the mouth of the
Columbia River and the
Clatsop Plains ''(†)''.
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Chinook Jargon
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Shoalwater (also known as Chinook proper), extinct (''†'') since the 1930s. Shoalwater was spoken in southwestern Washington around southern
Willapa Bay
Willapa Bay () is a bay located on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state in the United States. The Long Beach Peninsula separates Willapa Bay from the greater expanse of the Pacific Ocean. With over of surface area Willapa Bay is th ...
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References
Chinook (Tsinúk)at Omniglot. Retrieved 2017-06-23
Chinookan languages
Indigenous languages of Oregon
Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast
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