Coos

A language of United States

ISO 639: csz
Alternate Names: Hanis
Population: No known L1 speakers. The last speaker, Martha Harney Johnson, died in 1972 (Mithun 1999). Ethnic population: 150 (Golla 2007).
Location:: Oregon: south coast.
Language Status: 9 (Dormant). Language of registered tribe: Confederated Tribes of the Coos; Lower Umpqua; and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon, Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation.
Classification: Coosan
Typology: Dual number; no grammatical gender; 37 consonants and 10 vowels (5 long, 5 short); inclusive/exclusive pronominal clitics.
Language Use: Shifted to English [eng].
Language Development: Grammar. Texts. Language program run by Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw (Golla 2007).

Location: Oregon: south coast.