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Name: Chemakum Alternate Names: Chimakum; Cemakum Code: xch Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: LINGUIST List Families: Chimakuan Parent Subgroup: Chimakuan; Chemakuan; Chimukuan Family; Mosan (chmn) Brief Description: "Chemakum, one of the two languages of the Chemakuan family, was spoken in a small territory between Hood Canal and Port Townsend, on the east side of the Olympic Peninsula in northwest Washington. In the nineteenth century, when it was first noted, Chemakum was being replaced by Salish (Klallam and Lushootseed) and was not well documented. Boas found three speakers in 1890, and the language was extinct by the 1940s." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 12 Description of cmk, which was merged into xch: A language once spoken on the Puget Sound side of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. It was very similar to Quileute. The Chemakum were wiped out by the Suquamish people in the 1860's. Until c 1870 AD.

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Extinct