Chinook

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A language of United States

ISO 639-3
chh
Alternate Names
Lower Chinook, Shoalwater
User Population

No known L1 speakers. The last known speakers died in 1930. Ethnic population: 140 (2000 census).

Location

Oregon: Warm Springs Reservation; Washington: Yakima Reservation.

Language Status

9 (Dormant). Language of registered tribe: Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation, Quinault Indian Nation, Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation.

Classification
Chinookan
Dialects

Klatsop (Clatsop, Tlatsop), Shoalwater (Chinook Proper).

Typology

SVO, VSO.

Language Use

The Shoalwater dialect has been extinct since the 1930s (Mithun 1999). All shifted to English [eng].

Language Development

Texts. Language classes at Warm Springs (Golla 2007).

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Chinook