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Name: Wasco-Wishram Type: Dialect Alternate Names: Wasco; Wishram; Upper Chinook; Kiksht; Columbia Chinook; Chinook (Upper); Upper Chinookan Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 69 (1990 census). 7 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 750 possibly (1977 SIL) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 69 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: wac Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Chinookan Parent Dialect: Wasco-Wishram; Wasco; Wishram; Upper Chinook; Kiksht; Columbia Chinook; Chinook (Upper); Upper Chinookan (wac) Brief Description: "Kiksht is the only surviving language of the Chinookan family, originally spoken along the Columbia River from its mouth upriver to the vicinity of The Dalles. Kiksht (or Upper Chinook) was the language spoken upstream from Portland and originally included a string of dialects, of which only the easternmost, Wasco-Wishram, is still spoken. The Wasco variety is represented by five elderly speakers on the Warm Springs Reservation in north-central Oregon. The Wishram variety is spoken by two elders on the Yakama Reservation in south-central Washington." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 16

Endangerment Status

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Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Endangered