Tunica language
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| Tunica | ||
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| Spoken in: | United States | |
| Region: | Louisiana | |
| Language extinction: | since the death of Sesostrie Youchigant | |
| Language family: | Language Isolate | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | nai | |
| ISO 639-3: | tun | |
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The Tunica (or Tonica, or less common form Yuron [1]) language was a language isolate spoken in what is now Louisiana in the United States by Native American Tunica peoples.
When the last known fluent speaker, Sesostrie Youchigant, died, the language became extinct. Linguist Mary Haas worked with Youchigant to describe what he remembered of the language, and the description was published in A Grammar of the Tunica Language in 1941, followed by Tunica Texts in 1950 and Tunica Dictionary in 1953.
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