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Ocean levels have dramatically risen, placing historic river mouth locations 300 to 400 feet below sea level. We most likely will never know how large the seaside and river mouth Native American towns and villages were, how the populations dispersed to higher ground, and how the languages became so diverse in type, sound, and vocabulary.
The languages found in the Shoalwater Reservation on Willapa Bay, among its 84 remaining members, include traces of:
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