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Konomihu
Native to	United States
Region	Salmon River, northern California
Ethnicity	Konomihu Shasta
Extinct	1940s
Language family	Hokan ? Shasta–Palaihnihan Shastan Konomihu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	kono1241
Konomihu

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.

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. 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; some words are documented and compared by Shasta proper by Shirley Silver in Shasta and Konomihu in 1980.

References

1. Kroeber (1925)
2. Mithun (1999)
3. Handbook of North American Indians: California

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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