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

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

  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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Lower Chinook

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Lower Chinook is a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America. Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern...

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Chinookan languages

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assigned: chh (Chinook, Lower Chinook) and wac (Wasco-Wishram, Upper Chinook). For example, Ethnologue 15e classifies Kiksht as Lower Chinook, while others...

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Chinookan peoples

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Expedition encountered the Chinook Tribe on the lower Columbia. The term "Chinook" also has a wider meaning in reference to the Chinook Jargon, which is based...

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Chinook

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Columbia River by Chinook peoples Chinook Jargon, a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest Lower Chinook, a Chinookan language...

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Chinook salmon

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The Chinook salmon /ʃɪˈnʊk/ (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon. Its common name is derived from the...

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Comcomly

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Lower Chinook, a group of Chinookan peoples indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, who inhabited the area near Ilwaco, Washington. Concomly spoke Lower...

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Kathlamet language

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along the south bank of the lower Columbia River. It has been classified as a dialect of Upper Chinook, or as Lower Chinook, but was mutually intelligible...

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Chinook Jargon

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Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa or Chinook Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific...

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Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

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distinct languages, including Tillamook, Shasta, Lower Chinook, Kalapuya, Takelma, Alsea-Yaquina, Siuslaw/Lower Umpqua, Coos, the Plateau Penutian languages...

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Chinook wind

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Chinook winds, or simply Chinooks, are two types of prevailing warm, generally westerly winds in western North America: Coastal Chinooks and interior Chinooks...

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Rubus spectabilis

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Cowlitz people call the plant e'twanac and the berry e'twan; speakers of Lower Chinook call it yunts. The Squamish people call the plant yetwánáy and the berries...

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Tillamook people

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coastal Oregon of the Salish linguistic group. The name "Tillamook" is a Chinook language term meaning "people of [the village] Nekelim (or Nehalem)", sometimes...

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List of contemporary ethnic groups

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Wakashan, and Indo-European → Lower Chinook, Nootka Jargon, Germanic, and Italic → Chinook Jargon; formerly Chinookan → Lower Chinook → Clatsop United States...

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Chinook Pass

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Chinook Pass (elevation 5430 ft./1656 m.) is a pass through the Cascade Range in the state of Washington. The pass is located on the crest of the Cascade...

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Western Oregon Indian Termination Act

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federal recognition. The Chinook Indian Nation is made up of the five westernmost Tribes of Chinookan peoples, Lower Chinook, Willapa and Wahkiakum in...

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Chinook River

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Columbia State Park, Chinook Point, and the small town of Chinook on the Columbia River. Its lower course runs through the Chinook Wildlife Area. The river...

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Ranald MacDonald

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(also known as Raven or Princess Sunday), a Chinook, daughter of Comcomly, a leader of the "Lower Chinook" Chinookan people that lived near the present-day...

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Chinook Centre

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Chinook Centre (formally branded as "CF Chinook Centre") is the largest shopping mall in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is located near the geographic centre...

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Willamette Valley

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Theses. Paper 22). Retrieved July 4, 2017. Verne, Ray (May 1938). "Lower Chinook Ethnographic Notes". University of Washington Publications in Anthropology...

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List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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the iterative suffix -č) via Chinook Jargon. Salal (definition) from Chinook Trade Jargon [səˈlæl], from Lower Chinook salál. Saguaro (definition) via...

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Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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other Indigenous populations worldwide. The Amerindian populations show a lower genetic diversity than populations from other continental regions. Decreasing...

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Classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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and Lower), Washington Chehalis (BC), Fraser Valley Chemakum, Washington (extinct) Chetco – see Tolowa Chinook Dialects: (Lower Chinook, Upper Chinook, Clackamas...

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Birdman Chinook

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The Birdman Chinook is a family of single and two-place, pusher configuration, high-wing ultralight aircraft that was first flown on 12 December 1982...

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List of languages by time of extinction

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Washington/Oregon, United States with the death of Charles Cultee c. 1930s Lower Chinook Penutian Washington/Oregon, United States c. 1930s Mahican Algic > Algonquian...

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List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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ISBN 9780806132464. Patrick S. Druckenmiller & Erin E. Maxwell (2010). "A new Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) ichthyosaur genus from the Clearwater Formation, Alberta...

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Mima mounds

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Natural Area Preserve in Washington state. "Mima" is a name derived from a Chinook Jargon term meaning "a little further along" or "downstream". Theories...

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Mima Creek

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Oklahoma Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. ...'downstrem', from Lower Chinook 46°51′16″N 123°05′00″W / 46.85444°N 123.08333°W / 46.85444; -123...

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