Chinook

A language of United States

ISO 639: chh
Alternate Names: Lower Chinook, Shoalwater
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).

Location: Oregon: Warm Springs Reservation; Washington: Yakima Reservation.