The Biloxi Language > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Biloxi
Once Spoken in:
USA
Code:
bll
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Siouan-Catawban (Siouan)
Parent Subgroup:
Southeastern; Southeastern Siouan; Ohio Valley (sspr)
Brief Description:
"Biloxi was a language of the Southeastern subgroup of Siouan, spoken in teh seventeenth and early eighteenth century on the lower Pascagoula River and Biloxi Bay in southern Mississippi. The language was extensively documented by Dorsey in 1892-93 from a remnant of the tribe living in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. A search for speakers in 1934 was fruitless, although a short wordlist was collected from a woman who had spoken the language in her youth." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 11
Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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