Sesostrie Youchigant
Encyclopedia
Sesostrie Youchigant was the last native speaker of the Tunica language
. He worked with linguist
Mary Haas
to describe what he remembered of the language, and the description was published in A Grammar of the Tunica Language in 1939.
Tunica language
The Tunica language was a language isolate spoken in the Central and Lower Mississippi Valley by in the United States by Native American Tunica peoples. There are no known speakers of the Tunica language remaining.When the last known fluent speaker Sesostrie Youchigant died, the language became...
. He worked with linguist
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
Mary Haas
Mary Haas
Mary Rosamund Haas was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics.-Early work in linguistics:...
to describe what he remembered of the language, and the description was published in A Grammar of the Tunica Language in 1939.
External links
- Photograph of Youchigant taken by Mary Haas