New River Shasta language

New River Shasta language
New River Shasta
Spoken in United States
Region Salmon River, northern California
Extinct ?
Language family
Shastan
  • New River Shasta
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist List qt4

New River Shasta is an extinct Shastan language formerly spoken in northern California. It may have had only 300 speakers before contact (Kroeber 1925).

References

  • Mithun, Marianne (1999), The Languages of Native North America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 

External links

  • Overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

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