title: Lower Chinook
text: # Lower Chinook
  
  Lower Chinook is a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America.
  
  ## Dialects
  
  * Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern Oregon around the mouth of the Columbia River and the Clatsop Plains (†).
  * Chinook Jargon
  * Shoalwater (also known as Chinook proper), extinct (†) since the 1930s. Shoalwater was spoken in southwestern Washington around southern Willapa Bay.
  