Alternate Names:
Umpqua; Upper Umpqua
Code:
xup
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
LINGUIST List
Brief Description:
"Upper Umpqua was a language of the Oregon Athabaskan subgroup formerly spoken in the upper drainage of the Umpqua River in southwestern Oregon. After the Rogue River War of 1855-6 the Upper Umpquas were forcibly resettled in northern Oregon on the Grand Ronde and Siletz Reservations, and the language rapidly fell out of use. The last speaker died in the 1940s." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 24

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