Shasta language

Shasta language

language
name=Shasta
familycolor=American
states=United States
region=primarily northern California
extinct=by end of 20th century
fam1=Shastan
iso2=nai|iso3=sht

The Shasta language was a Shastan language spoken from northern California into southwestern Oregon. In 1980, only two fluent speakers, both elderly, were alive. Today the language is extinct, and all Shasta people now speak English.

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Consonants

Length was distinctive for consonants in Shasta. The affricates were generally spelled and <č>, and the ejectives indicated by an apostrophe written over the character. The phoneme IPA|/j/ was spelled .

Vowels

Shasta had four vowels, IPA|/i/ /e/ /a/ /u/, with contrastive length, and two tones: high tone, marked with an acute accent, and low tone, which was unmarked.

References

*Mithun, Marianne. The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=sht Ethnologue report for Shasta]


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