Upper Chinook Language - Dialects

Dialects

  • Cascades, (also known as Watlalla or Watlala) now extinct (†).
  • Clackamas, now extinct (†); was spoken in northwestern Oregon along the Clackamas and Sandy rivers.
  • Hood River, now extinct (†).
  • Multnomah (†) Multnomah spoken on Sauvie Island and in the Portland area in northwestern Oregon.
  • Wasco-Wishram
  • White Salmon, now extinct (†).

Kathlamet has been classified as an additional dialect, it is was not mutually intelligible.

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