Lower Chinook is a
Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the
Columbia River
The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: ' or '; Sahaptin: ''Nch’i-Wàna'' or ''Nchi wana''; Sinixt dialect'' '') is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, C ...
on the west coast of
North America
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.
Dialects
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Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern Oregon around the mouth of the
Columbia River
The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: ' or '; Sahaptin: ''Nch’i-Wàna'' or ''Nchi wana''; Sinixt dialect'' '') is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, C ...
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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