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Upper Chinook language

Upper Chinook, endonym Kiksht, also known as Columbia Chinook, and Wasco-Wishram after its last surviving dialect, is a recently extinct language of the US Pacific Northwest. It had 69 speakers in 1990, of whom 7 were monolingual: five Wasco and two Wishram. In 2001, there were five remaining speakers of Wasco.

Dialects
Multnomah, once spoken on Sauvie Island and in the Portland area in northwestern Oregon • Kiksht • Watlala or Watlalla, also known as Cascades, now extinct (two groups, one on each side of the Columbia River; the Oregon group were called Gahlawaihih [Curtis]). • Hood River, now extinct (spoken by the Hood River Band of the Hood River Wasco in Oregon, also known as Ninuhltidih [Curtis] or Kwikwulit [Mooney]) • White Salmon, now extinct (spoken by the White Salmon River Band of Wishram in Washington) • Wasco-Wishram (the Wishram lived north of the Columbia River in Washington and the kin Wasco lived south of the same river in Oregon) • Clackamas, now extinct, was spoken in northwestern Oregon along the Clackamas and Sandy rivers. Kathlamet has been classified as an additional dialect; it was not mutually intelligible. ==Phonology==
Phonology
Vowels in Kiksht are as follows: /u a i ɛ ə/. ==References==
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