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wacWasco-Wishram  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Upper Chinook, also known as Kiksht, Columbia Chinook, and Wasco-Wishram after its only living dialect, is a highly endangered language of the US Pacific Northwest. It had 69 speakers as of 1990, of which 7 were monolingual: five Wasco and two Wishram. It is the last living Chinookan language.

Entry terms

  • Upper Chinook language

ISO 639-3 code

  • wac

Notation

  • wac

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/wac

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