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Name: Chitimacha Type: Language Alternate Names: Chitimachan; Chitimacha Cluster; Chetimacha; Shetimacha; Chatimacha; Shetimasha Once Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: No known speakers. Ethnic population: 300 (1977 SIL) (Ethnologue) Code: ctm Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Gulf Parent Subgroup: Gulf (gulf) Brief Description: "Chitimacha, the heritage language of the Chitimacha Tribe of Cheranton, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, was originally spoken throughout the Bayou country at the delta of the Mississippi River. Although attested in several wordlists in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Chitimacha is primarily documented in the extensive data collected by Swadesh in 1932-34 from the last two fluent speakers, most of which remains unpublished. The last speaker died in 1940." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 12

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