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{{Short description|Extinct language family}}
{{Infobox language family
| name          = Shastan
| region        = Northern [[California]]
| extinct       = 1963, with the death of Sergeant Sambo
| familycolor   = hokan
| fam1          = [[Hokan languages|Hokan]] ?
| fam2          = Shasta–[[Palaihnihan languages|Palaihnihan]] ?
| glotto        = shas1238
| glottorefname = Shastan
| map           = Shastan languages-01.svg
| mapcaption    = Pre-contact distribution of Shastan languages
| child1        = ''[[Konomihu language|Konomihu]]'' {{extinct}}
| child2        = ''[[New River Shasta language|New River Shasta]]'' {{extinct}}
| child3        = ''[[Okwanuchu language|Okwanuchu]]'' {{extinct}}
| child4        = ''[[Shasta language|Shasta]]'' {{extinct}}
| ancestor      = 
| glottoname    = 
| notes         = 
| altname       = Sastean
| ref           = <ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=David |title=Siskiyou County woman hopes to revive Shasta Indian language |url=https://www.siskiyoudaily.com/story/lifestyle/2008/06/23/siskiyou-county-woman-hopes-to/49539377007/ |access-date=2024-08-31 |website=Siskiyou Daily News |language=en-US}}</ref>
| iso3          = sht
| iso3comment   = (Shasta only)
}}

The '''Shastan''' (or '''Sastean''') languages are an extinct language family which consists of four languages, spoken in present-day northern [[California]] and southern [[Oregon]]:

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* '''Shastan'''
** '''[[Konomihu language|Konomihu]]''' {{extinct}}
** '''[[New River Shasta language|New River Shasta]]''' {{extinct}}
** '''[[Okwanuchu language|Okwanuchu]]''' {{extinct}}
** '''[[Shasta language|Shasta]]''' (also known as Shastika) {{extinct}}
{{tree list/end}}

Konomihu appears to have been the most divergent Shastan language. Okwanuchu may have been a dialect of Shasta proper, which is known to have had a number of dialects.

The entire Shastan family is now [[extinct language|extinct]]. Shasta was the last language that was spoken. Three elderly speakers were reported in the 1980s.

Shastan has often been considered to be in the hypothetical [[Hokan languages|Hokan]] stock.

== References ==
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*Mithun, Marianne, ed. ''The Languages of Native North America''. Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]], 1999.
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==External links==
{{sister project |project=wiktionary |text=[[Wiktionary]] has a [[Swadesh list]] at '''''[[Wiktionary:Appendix:Shasta Swadesh list|Appendix:Shasta Swadesh list]]'''''}}
* [http://www.californiaprehistory.com/tribmap.html Native Tribes, Groups, Language Families and Dialects of California in 1770] (after Kroeber)

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