Lower Chinook is a
Chinookan language 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 R ...
(Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern Oregon around the mouth of the
Columbia River and the
Clatsop Plains
The Clatsop Plains are an area of wetlands and sand dunes between the Northern Oregon Coast Range and Pacific Ocean in northwestern Oregon in the United States. They stretch from near the mouth of the Columbia River south to the vicinity of Tilla ...
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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.
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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