Lower Chinook

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

Dialects

Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern Oregon around the mouth of the Columbia River and the Clatsop Plains (†).
Shoalwater (also known as Chinook proper), extinct (†) since the 1930s. Shoalwater was spoken in southwestern Washington around southern Willapa Bay.

Chinook Jargon is partially based on Chinook.

Lower Chinook shares many cognates with the Upper Chinook and Kathlamet languages.

English	Lower Chinook^[3] ^{[unreliable source?]}	Kathlamet^[4]^{[unreliable source?]}	Upper Chinook^[5]^{[unreliable source?]}
One	Ixt	Ixat	Ixt
Two	Môkst	Môkct	Môkčt
Three	Łun	Łon	Łun
Four	Lakt	mis\|Lakt}]	Lakt
Five	Kwanm	Quinum	Gwεnεm
Man	Łkwalipx	Lxam	Ikala
Woman	Ła'akil	Aqakilak	Agagilak
Sun	O'ołax	Aqałax	Agałax
Moon	Okłumin	Akłemin	Akulmin
Water	Łtsuq	Łtcuqoa	Iłčqoa

^ Lower Chinook at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Campbell (1997) American Indian Languages; Mithun (2001) The Languages of Native North America
^ "Chinook Words". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
^ "Kathlamet Words". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
^ "Wasco-Wishram Words". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2024-08-29.

Authority control databases
National	United States Israel
Other	Yale LUX