| (Upper) Umpqua | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | USA |
| Region | Oregon (Umpqua Valley) |
| Extinct | ca. 1950 |
| Language family |
Dené–Yeniseian
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Linguist List | qhk |
Upper Umpqua is an extinct Athabascan language once spoken along the south fork of the Umpqua River near the Oregon coast. It has been extinct for at least fifty years and little is known about it. Some data was collected by Melville Jacobs. It is called Upper Umpqua to distinguish it from the unrelated Penutian language Lower Umpqua, now also known as Siuslaw, spoken in the same area. It is classified as one of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages.