The Shastan (or Sastean) family consisted of four languages, spoken in present-day northern California and southern Oregon:

1. Konomihu (†)
2. New River Shasta (†)
3. Okwanuchu (†)
4. Shasta (also known as Shastika) (†)

Shastan
Geographic distribution	Northern California
Extinct	by end of 20th century
Linguistic classification	Hokan ? Shasta–Palaihnihan ? Shastan
Subdivisions	Konomihu † New River Shasta † Okwanuchu † Shasta †
Glottolog	shas1238
Pre-contact distribution of Shastan languages

Konomihu appears to have been the most divergent Shastan language. Okwanuchu may have been a dialect of Shasta proper, which is known to have had a number of dialects.

The entire Shastan family is now extinct. Shasta was the last language that was spoken. Three elderly speakers were reported in the 1980s.

Shastan has often been considered to be in the hypothetical Hokan stock.

References

External links

Wiktionary has a Swadesh list at Appendix:Shasta Swadesh list

• Native Tribes, Groups, Language Families and Dialects of California in 1770 (after Kroeber)

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[es] Lenguas shastanas

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