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Name: Ofo Type: Language Alternate Name: Ofogoula Once Spoken in: USA Code: ofo 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: "Ofo was a language of the Southeastern sub-group of Siouan, spoken in the 1670s on the east bank of the Mississippi River below the mouth of the Ohio, in present-day western Tennessee. The Ofos moved south to the Yazoo River in the 1690s and were subsequently absorbed into nearby tribes. The only documentation of Ofo is a vocabulary collected in 1908 from a woman of Ofo descent, living among the Tunicas in Louisiana, who had learned some of the language from her grandmother." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 20

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