Chinookan languages
E95601
Chinookan languages are a group of Native American languages traditionally spoken along the lower Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chinookan languages canonical | 19 |
| Chinookan | 2 |
| Upper Chinookan language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T782977 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chinookan languages Context triple: [Multnomah people, languageFamily, Chinookan languages]
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A.
Tsimshianic languages
Tsimshianic languages are a small family of Indigenous languages spoken primarily by the Tsimshian peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, especially in British Columbia and southeastern Alaska.
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B.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
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C.
Miwok languages
Miwok languages are a group of closely related Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Miwok peoples of central and northern California.
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D.
Siouan languages
Siouan languages are a family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken by numerous Native American peoples across the Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast.
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E.
Gros Ventre language
Gros Ventre is an endangered Algonquian language traditionally spoken by the Gros Ventre (Aaniiih) people of north-central Montana in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chinookan languages Target entity description: Chinookan languages are a group of Native American languages traditionally spoken along the lower Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington.
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A.
Tsimshianic languages
Tsimshianic languages are a small family of Indigenous languages spoken primarily by the Tsimshian peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, especially in British Columbia and southeastern Alaska.
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B.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
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C.
Miwok languages
Miwok languages are a group of closely related Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Miwok peoples of central and northern California.
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D.
Siouan languages
Siouan languages are a family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken by numerous Native American peoples across the Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast.
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E.
Gros Ventre language
Gros Ventre is an endangered Algonquian language traditionally spoken by the Gros Ventre (Aaniiih) people of north-central Montana in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American languages
ⓘ
language family ⓘ |
| category |
Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas
ⓘ
Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast ⓘ |
| colonialContactLanguage |
Canadian French
ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec French
English ⓘ French ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus |
moribund
ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Chinookan peoples ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Columbia River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia River Basin
Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| glottologCode | chin1286 ⓘ |
| hasDescendant | Chinook Jargon ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | complex verb morphology ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Clackamas language
ⓘ
linked to:
Wasco-Wishram language
Kathlamet language ⓘ Lower Chinook ⓘ Multnomah dialect ⓘ Shoalwater-Clatsop dialect ⓘ Upper Chinook ⓘ Wasco-Wishram language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
glottalized consonants
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | verb-final tendencies in some varieties ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | pre-contact language family of the Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| influenced | regional trade jargon in the Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| ISO639-5Code | chnw ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Chinookan
ⓘ
linked to:
Chinookan languages
|
| linguisticTypology |
head-marking language
ⓘ
polysynthetic language ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | polysynthetic ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguageFamily |
Athabaskan languages
ⓘ
Kalapuyan languages ⓘ Salishan languages ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| researchField | Americanist linguistics ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Oregon
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington (state) ⓘ
linked to:
Washington
|
| subclassOf | Penutian languages ⓘ |
| timeDepth | attested since early 19th century ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion |
lower Columbia River
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia River
|
| usedBy |
Chinook tribe
ⓘ
Clackamas people ⓘ Wasco tribe ⓘ
linked to:
Wasco people
Wishram tribe ⓘ
linked to:
Wishram people
|
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Chinookan languages Description of subject: Chinookan languages are a group of Native American languages traditionally spoken along the lower Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Skamania (a Chinookan word meaning swift waters)
linked to: Chinookan languages
linked to: Chinookan languages
linked to: Chinookan languages