Lower Chinook
[ loh-er ]
noun
an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
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How to use Lower Chinook in a sentence
The Lower Chinook dialects are now practically extinct; of persons of pure Chinook blood only about three hundred now exist.
An Introduction to Mythology | Lewis Spence
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