It was spoken in a number of dialects, possibly including Okwanuchu.

Today, all ethnic Shasta people speak English as their first language.

[2] Minimal pairs and near minimal pairs are shown below: Shasta has four vowels, /i e a u/, with contrastive length, and two tones: high and low.

Silver (1966) devised a spelling system for distinguishing consonants and vowels in Shasta.

Shasta vowels can have low or high tones.