New River Shasta language
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new-river-shasta-language-166-11094240
title:
New River Shasta language
text:
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." The last recorded speaker of New River Shasta was Saxy Kidd, who only remembered some words and had mostly forgot
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct Shastan language of California, USA
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_Shasta_language
date created:
2011-10-05T18:19:21Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T22:01:06Z
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