Chinookan languages
E95601
Chinookan languages are a group of Native American languages traditionally spoken along the lower Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington.
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.
subject surface form:
Skamania
this entity surface form:
Chinookan
this entity surface form:
Chinookan
this entity surface form:
Upper Chinookan language