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 toUnited States
RegionSalmon River, northern California
EthnicityShasta
Extinct(date missing)
Hokan ?
  • Shasta–Palaihnihan
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottolognewr1237[1]

References

  • Mithun, Marianne (1999), The Languages of Native North America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  1. 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.
  2. Kroeber (1925)
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