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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.[1] 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 to	United States
Region	Salmon River, northern California
Ethnicity	Shasta
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Hokan ? Shasta–Palaihnihan Shastan New River Shasta
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	newr1237

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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