Konomihu
is an extinct
Shastan language
formerly spoken in northern California. There may have been only a few speakers even before contact, and they self-identified as Shasta by the turn of the 20th century.
[1]
Konomihu may have been the most divergent of the Shastan family, although it is difficult to tell, as there is little material on the language.
[2]
Kroeber noted that "it is still questionable whether their speech is more properly a highly specialized aberration of Shasta or of an ancient and independent but moribund branch of Hokan from which Karok and Chimariko are descended together with Shasta." A wordlist was collected by Angulo in 1928, but not published;
[3]
some words are documented and compared by Shasta proper by Shirley Silver in
Shasta and Konomihu
in 1980.