New River Shasta language
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| 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[1] |
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.[2] 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[edit]
- Mithun, Marianne (1999), The Languages of Native North America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "New River Shasta". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Kroeber (1925)
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