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 (1925)] 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."
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Overviewat the
Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Shastan languages
Extinct languages of North America
Indigenous languages of California
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