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| Spoken along the [[Klamath River]] in northwestern [[California]]. Part of the [[Hokan languages|Hokan]] hypothesis, but little evidence for this.<ref name="AmerIndLang-Campbell" />

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|Spoken in several pueblos throughout [[New Mexico]], including [[Cochiti, New Mexico|Cochiti]] and [[Acoma Pueblo|Acoma]] Pueblos. Has two main dialects: Eastern and Western. Sometimes those two dialects are separated into languages in a Keresan family.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Wick |title=Proto-Keresan Phonology |journal=International Journal of American Linguistics |date=1963 |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=310–330 |doi=10.1086/464748 |s2cid=143519987 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/464748 |access-date=11 February 2021|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

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| [[Klamath language|Klamath–Modoc]]

| style="text-align: center;" colspan="2" |Extinct

| Spoken around [[Upper Klamath Lake|Klamath Lake]] in southern [[Oregon]] and northern [[California]] until 2003, after the last speaker died. Part of the [[Plateau Penutian languages|Plateau Penutian]] branch of the [[Penutian languages|Penutian]] hypothesis.

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| [[Konkow language|Konkow]]

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| Spoken in the [[Rocky Mountains|Rockies]] of northeastern [[Idaho]], northwestern [[Montana]] and southeastern [[British Columbia]]. Attempts have been made to place it in a Macro-Algic or Macro-Salishan family, but these have not gained significant support.<ref name="AmerIndLang-Campbell" />

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| [[Molala language|Molala]]

| style="text-align: center;" colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Extinct

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| Spoken in [[Oregon]] until 1958. Part of the [[Plateau Penutian languages|Plateau Penutian]] branch of the [[Penutian languages|Penutian]] hypothesis.

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| [[Natchez language|Natchez]]

| style="text-align: center;" colspan="2" |Extinct

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| Spoken in southern [[Mississippi]] and eastern [[Louisiana]] until 1957.<ref name=kimball2>{{cite book|last=Kimball|first=Geoffry|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nd5o9juMePEC&pg=PA385|chapter=Natchez|title=Native Languages of the Southeastern United States |editor=Janine Scancarelli |editor2=Heather Kay Hardy |publisher=University of Nebraska Press|year=2005|pages=385–453|isbn=978-0-8032-4235-7}}</ref> Often linked to [[Muskogean languages|Muskogean]] in a [[Gulf languages|Gulf]] hypothesis.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Haas |first1=M.R. |title=Natchez and the Muskogean languages |journal=Language |date=1956 |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=61–72|doi=10.2307/410653 |jstor=410653 }}</ref> Attempts at revival have produced six people with some fluency.<ref>{{Cite news

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