Shastan languages
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The Shastan (or Sastean) languages are an extinct language family which consist of four languages, formerly spoken in what is now northern California and southern Oregon:
- Shastan † Konomihu † New River Shasta † Okwanuchu † Shasta (also known as Shastika)
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.
Shasta was the last language to become extinct. Three elderly speakers were reported in the 1980s.
Shastan has often been considered to be in the hypothetical Hokan stock.
- Mithun, Marianne, ed. The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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