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Name: Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie Type: Language Alternate Names: Kwalhioqua-Tlatskanai; Kwalhioqua-Tlatskanie Code: qwt Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (Eyak-Athabaskan, Na-Dene, Dene-Yeniseian) Parent Subgroup: Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie; Kwalhioqua (kwhq) Brief Description: "Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie was an Athabaskan language formerly spoken in two separate areas along the lower Columbia River, the Kwalhioqua to the north of the river, the Clatskanie to the south, separated by the territory of the Lower Chinook and Cathlamet. The Kwalhioqua area, along the Willapa River in what is now southwestern Washington, included two subgroups, the Willapa and the Suwal. The Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie people were dispersed among Coast Salish tribes in the nineteenth century and their language was extinct before the 1930s." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 17

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Linguist List Status: Extinct