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Name: Tunica Type: Language Alternate Name: Tonika Once Spoken in: USA Code: tun Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Gulf Parent Subgroup: Gulf (gulf) Brief Description: "Tunica, a heritage language of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, was spoken in the seventeenth and eighteenth century along the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Some materials on Tunica were collected in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but the principal documentation is by Haas, who collected extensive data between 1933 and 1939 and published a grammar, a grammatical sketch, a dictionary, and a collection of texts. The last speaker, with whom Haas worked, died after 1950. Tunica is an isolate. Tunica was also spoken by the neighbouring Tiou, and other dialects or closely related languages were probably spoken by the Koroa, Yazoo, and Grigra; no data from these varieties is known." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 24

Endangerment Status

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