New River Shasta language
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."
| New River Shasta | |
|---|---|
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Salmon River, northern California |
| Ethnicity | Shasta |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | newr1237[1] |
References
- 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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