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Name: Lower Chinook Type: Language Alternate Names: Chinook; Chinookan; Coastal Chinook; Chinook (Lower); Lower Chinookan; Chinook proper Once Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 12 (1996), decreasing. Ethnic population: 140 (2000 census) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 7 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 12 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: chh Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Chinookan Parent Subgroup: Chinookan; Chinook; Chinooks; Tshinuk; Cheenook; Chinuk; Tschinuk; chik (chik) Child Dialects: Shoalwater; Chinook proper (chh-sho) Clatsop; Clackama (chh-cla) Brief Description: "Lower Chinook was the Chinookan language formerly spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River from Shoalwater Bay in the north to Tillamook Head in the south, and for about ten miles upstream. After a brief period of prosperity after the establishment of a fur-trading post at Astoria in 1811, they suffered a steep demographic decline, and by the end of the nineteenth century the surviving Lower Chinooks had been incorporated into the Lower Chehalis Salish to the north. The last speaker died in the 1930s." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 17

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed