New River Shasta language

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New River Shasta
Native to United States
Region Salmon River, northern California
Extinct (date missing)
Language family
Hokan ?
  • Shasta–Palaihnihan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
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[edit]

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

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