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1934 (Lower Chehalis) {
id: 1934 , code_val: "cea ", code_authorities: "ISO 639-3 ", primary_name: "Lower Chehalis ", alternate_names: "Chehalis, Lower; ɬəwʼálʼməš; ", lang_description: "", classification: "Salishan; Tsamosan ", dialect_varieties: "Wynoochee; Humptulips; Westport-Shoalwater; ", public_comment: "", private_comment: null, source_id: 89800 , speakers: [ { id: 2969 , code_id: 1934 , speaker_number: "1-9 ", speaker_number_text: "1 ", second_language_speakers: "", semi_speakers: "a few ", children: "", young_adults: "", older_adults: "", elders: "", ethnic_population: "", date_of_info: "", public_comment: "", private_comment: null, source_id: 10114 , preferred: 0, }, { id: 10007 , code_id: 1934 , speaker_number: "None ", speaker_number_text: "0 ", second_language_speakers: "", semi_speakers: "", children: "", young_adults: "", older_adults: "", elders: "", ethnic_population: "", date_of_info: "", public_comment: "Few speakers of Lower Chehalis survived into the 20th century, and the language is not well
documented, although a substantial number of sound recordings of one of the last fluent speakers were made around 1940. One very elderly and incapacitated man may have some limited fluency, and a few others may have a passive knowledge of words and phrases, but the language is extinct as a medium of communication. ", private_comment: null, source_id: 88278 , preferred: 1 , }, { id: 14299 , code_id: 1934 , speaker_number: null, speaker_number_text: null, second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: null, children: null, young_adults: null, older_adults: null, elders: null, ethnic_population: null, date_of_info: null, public_comment: null, private_comment: null, source_id: 1521 , preferred: 0, }, { id: 30727 , code_id: 1934 , speaker_number: "None ", speaker_number_text: "0 ", second_language_speakers: "", semi_speakers: "", children: "", young_adults: "", older_adults: "", elders: "", ethnic_population: "", date_of_info: "", public_comment: ""No known L1 speakers." ", private_comment: null, source_id: 98650 , preferred: 0, }, ], language: { code_id: 1934 , featured: 0, cached_documentation_score: -1 , google_group_url: "", simplified_level: "dormant ", coordinates: "46.3227,-123.9724 ", updated_at: "2017-05-11 14:57:31 ", speaker_attitude: null, government_support: null, institutional_support: null, _other_languages_used: null, domains_of_use: null, speakers_worldwide: "0 ", second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: "", children: "", young_adults: "", older_adults: "", elders: "", ethnic_population: "", speakers_worldwide_year: "", bibliography_of_vitality: "", bibliography_of_context: "88278 ", bibliography_of_locations: "1521 ", user_submission: null, approved: 0, speakers_int_cache: 0, has_audio_samples: 0, has_document_samples: 0, has_image_samples: 0, has_guide_samples: 0, has_video_samples: 0, search_simplified_level: "D ", user_id: 1 , code_val_cache: "cea ", has_link_samples: 0, submission_source_info: null, countries: [ { id: 6 , name: "USA ", pivot: { language_id: 1934 , country_id: 6 , }, }, ], }, }