SIS ISO 639-3
Siuslaw
A language of United States
- ISO 639
- sis
- Alternate Names
- Lower Umpqua, Siuslawan
- Population
- No known L1 speakers. Last known speakers survived into the 1970s (Golla 2007). Ethnic population: 100 (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
- Language isolate
- Language Use
- Shifted to English [eng].
- Language Development
- Texts. Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw have a language program (Golla 2007).
Also Spoken in
Map
Location: Oregon: south coast.
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