Revision as of 20:48, 13 August 2009 by Rosbot(talk | contribs)(New page: <table valign=top> <tr> <td valign=top align=left width="50%"> <table valign=top> <tr><td><b>Description:</b> The Tunica (or Tonica, or less common form Yuron ) langua...)
The Tunica (or Tonica, or less common form Yuron ) language was a language isolate spoken in what is now Louisiana in the United States by Native American Tunica peoples.
When the last known fluent speaker, Sesostrie Youchigant, died, the language became extinct. Linguist Mary Haas worked with Youchigant to describe what he remembered of the language, and the description was published in A Grammar of the Tunica Language in 1941, followed by Tunica Texts in 1950 and Tunica Dictionary in 1953...... full article at Wikipedia
