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New River Shasta language

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Native to
  
Extinct
  
(date missing)

Ethnicity
  
Shasta

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Region
  
Language family
  
Hokan ?Shasta–PalaihnihanShastanNew River Shasta

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. 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

New River Shasta language Wikipedia


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