Chinookan languages

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Chinookan languages are a group of Native American languages traditionally spoken along the lower Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Chinookan languages canonical 19
Chinookan 2
Upper Chinookan language 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American languages
language family
category Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas
Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast
colonialContactLanguage Quebec French
surface form: Canadian French

English
French
endangeredStatus moribund
severely endangered
ethnicGroup Chinookan peoples
geographicDistribution Columbia River Basin
surface form: Columbia River basin

Pacific Northwest
glottologCode chin1286
hasDescendant Chinook Jargon
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb morphology
hasPart Wasco-Wishram language
surface form: Clackamas language

Kathlamet language
Lower Chinook
Multnomah dialect
Shoalwater-Clatsop dialect
Upper Chinook
Wasco-Wishram language
hasPhonologicalFeature glottalized consonants
rich consonant inventory
hasSyntacticFeature verb-final tendencies in some varieties
historicalStatus pre-contact language family of the Pacific Northwest
influenced regional trade jargon in the Pacific Northwest
ISO639-5Code chnw
languageFamily Chinookan languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Chinookan
linguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
morphologicalType polysynthetic
neighboringLanguageFamily Athabaskan languages
Kalapuyan languages
Salishan languages
region North America
researchField Americanist linguistics
spokenIn Oregon
United States of America
surface form: United States

Washington
surface form: Washington (state)
subclassOf Penutian languages
timeDepth attested since early 19th century
traditionalRegion Columbia River
surface form: lower Columbia River
usedBy Chinook tribe
Clackamas people
Wasco people
surface form: Wasco tribe

Wishram people
surface form: Wishram tribe
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (22)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Multnomah people languageFamily Chinookan languages
Penutian languages hasSubgroup Chinookan languages
Chinookan peoples languageFamily Chinookan languages
Chinook Jargon hasSubstrateLanguage Chinookan languages
Chinook Jargon hasLexicalSourceLanguage Chinookan languages
Chinook Jargon hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Chinookan languages
Clackamas River languageOfName Chinookan languages
Skamania (a Chinookan word meaning swift waters) language Chinookan languages
subject surface form: Skamania
this entity surface form: Chinookan
Penutian phylum includes Chinookan languages
Chinookan languages languageFamily Chinookan languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Chinookan
Clackamas people languageFamily Chinookan languages
Clackamas people language Chinookan languages
this entity surface form: Upper Chinookan language
Lower Chinook languageFamily Chinookan languages
Upper Chinook languageFamily Chinookan languages
Clatsop people languageFamily Chinookan languages
Wasco people languageFamily Chinookan languages
Wishram people languageFamily Chinookan languages
Chinuk Wawa lexicalSourceLanguage Chinookan languages
Chinook Wawa hasLexicalSource Chinookan languages
Klickitat tribe languageFamily Chinookan languages
Melville Jacobs studied Chinookan languages