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
- ^ Lower Chinook at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Campbell (1997) American Indian Languages; Mithun (2001) The Languages of Native North America
- Chinook (Tsinúk) at Omniglot. Retrieved 2017-06-23
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