New River Shasta language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids New River Shasta |
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| Native to | United States |
| Region | Salmon River, northern California |
| Ethnicity | Shasta |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
| Language family |
Hokan ?
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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."
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