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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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American languages
language family
category Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas
Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast
colonialContactLanguage Canadian French NERFINISHED
English NERFINISHED
French NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus moribund
severely endangered
ethnicGroup Chinookan peoples NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution Columbia River basin NERFINISHED
Pacific Northwest NERFINISHED
glottologCode chin1286
hasDescendant Chinook Jargon NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb morphology
hasPart Clackamas language NERFINISHED
Kathlamet language NERFINISHED
Lower Chinook NERFINISHED
Multnomah dialect NERFINISHED
Shoalwater-Clatsop dialect NERFINISHED
Upper Chinook NERFINISHED
Wasco-Wishram language NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
morphologicalType polysynthetic
neighboringLanguageFamily Athabaskan languages
Kalapuyan languages NERFINISHED
Salishan languages NERFINISHED
region North America
researchField Americanist linguistics
spokenIn Oregon NERFINISHED
United States
Washington (state) NERFINISHED
subclassOf Penutian languages NERFINISHED
timeDepth attested since early 19th century
traditionalRegion lower Columbia River NERFINISHED
usedBy Chinook tribe NERFINISHED
Clackamas people NERFINISHED
Wasco tribe NERFINISHED
Wishram tribe NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin script NERFINISHED


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