New River Shasta language
| New River Shasta | |
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| Native to | United States |
| Region | Salmon River, northern California |
| Ethnicity | Shasta |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | newr1237 |
New River Shasta is an extinct Shastan language formerly spoken in northern California. It may have had only 300 speakers before contact, and they soon went extinct; the language is attested in only a few short wordlists.[1] Kroeber regarded them as possibly "nearest to the major group in speech, although [...] their tongue as a whole must have been unintelligible to the Shasta proper."
References[]
- Mithun, Marianne (1999), The Languages of Native North America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- ^ Kroeber (1925)
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Categories:
- Shastan languages
- Extinct languages of North America
- Indigenous languages of California
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs