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Name: Biloxi Type: Language Once Spoken in: USA Code: bll Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Siouan-Catawban (Siouan) Parent Subgroup: Southeastern; Southeast Siouan Proper; 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

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed