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The Chitimacha language is a language isolate historically spoken by the Chitimacha people of Louisiana United States. It went extinct in 1940 with the death of the last fluent speaker Delphine Ducloux.Although no longer spoken it is fairly extensively documented in the early 20th-century work (mostly unpublished) of linguists Morris Swadesh and John R. Swanton.
