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Name: Shasta Type: Language Alternate Names: Shastika; Shasta proper; Sastean; Shastan; Shasta-Achomawi Once Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: No known speakers. Ethnic population: 12 (1990 census) (Ethnologue) Code: sht Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Shastan (Sastean, Shasta) Parent Subgroup: Shastan; Sastean; Shasta; Saste; Shasty; Shasties; Sasti; Shastan Isolate (shas) Child Dialects: Oregon; Shasta (sht-ore) Shasta Valley; Ahútireʔécu; Watiru; Shasta (sht-val) Klamath River; Shasta (sht-kla) Kammatwa; Shasta (sht-kam) Scotts Valley; Iruʔáycu; Shasta (sht-sct) Brief Description: "Shasta (proper), the only Shastan language to survive into the twentieth century, was originally spoken in several dialects in California across a relatively large territory that included Scotts Valley, near modern Etna and Ft. Jones; Shasta Valley, around Yreka; and the Klamath River between Karuk and Klamath-Modoc territory. Many modern Shastas have merged their political and cultural identity with the Karuk Tribe and consider Karuk their heritage language. (Shasta is often used as the cover term for all of the Shastan languages, a family of four languages.) See also New River Shasta, Okwanuchu, and Konomihu." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 22

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed