Konomihu language
Konomihu | |
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Native to | United States |
Region | Salmon River, northern California |
Ethnicity | Shasta |
Extinct | 1940s |
Language family | Hokan ?
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ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | kono1241 |
Konomihu is an extinct Shastan language formerly spoken in northern California. There may have been only a few speakers even before contact, and they self-identified as Shasta by the turn of the 20th century.[1]
Konomihu may have been the most divergent of the Shastan family, although it is difficult to tell, as there is little material on the language.[2] Kroeber noted that "it is still questionable whether their speech is more properly a highly specialized aberration of Shasta or of an ancient and independent but moribund branch of Hokan from which Karok and Chimariko are descended together with Shasta." A wordlist was collected by Angulo in 1928, but not published;[3] some words are documented and compared by Shasta proper by Shirley Silver in Shasta and Konomihu in 1980.
References
Sources
- Mithun, Marianne (1999), The Languages of Native North America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
External links
- Overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
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