Cahto

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Cahto is an extinct Athabaskan language once spoken by the Cahto people of northern California’s Pacific Coast region.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan language
extinct language
language
belongsToGrouping California Athabaskan languages NERFINISHED
branchOf Na-Dene language family NERFINISHED
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedIn field notes by linguists in the early 20th century
endonym Kato NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Cahto people NERFINISHED
extinctionStatus extinct
geographicArea Pacific Coast region of northern California
glottocode caht1238
glottologName Cahto NERFINISHED
hasAlternateName Cahto Apache NERFINISHED
Cahto Athabaskan NERFINISHED
Kato NERFINISHED
historicalEra pre-contact and early post-contact California
ISO639-3Code ktw
languageFamily Athabaskan NERFINISHED
languageStatus no known native speakers
locatedIn Mendocino County NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages Mattole NERFINISHED
Sinkyone NERFINISHED
Wailaki NERFINISHED
Yuki NERFINISHED
region northern California
relatedTo Hupa NERFINISHED
Mattole–Bear River NERFINISHED
Tolowa NERFINISHED
Wailaki NERFINISHED
spokenBy Cahto people NERFINISHED
spokenInPastBy Native Americans in northern California
subfamily Pacific Coast Athabaskan NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature head-marking syntax
polysynthetic morphology
tone-less phonology
usedBy Cahto people for traditional cultural practices
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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