Catlamet (language)

Kathlamet is a dead Chinook language that was previously spoken by the Catlamet people living around the state border of Washington and Oregon in the USA. The most extensive language reports were made by Franz Boas , and grammar was recorded in Della Hymes's dissertation.

Catlamet was distributed in the northwest of Oregon along the south coast of the lowlands of the Columbia River. It was classified as a dialect of the Upper Chinook and Lower Chinook languages, between which there was no mutual understanding .