Lower Chinook

Lower Chinook is a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America.

Lower Chinook
Tsinúk
Native toUnited States
RegionColumbia River Valley
Ethnicity140 (2000 census)[1]
Extinctin the 1930s[2]
Chinookan
  • Lower Chinook
Language codes
ISO 639-3chh
Glottologchin1286

Dialects

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


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