Karkin
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| Karkin | ||
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| Spoken in: | United States (California) | |
| Total speakers: | extinct | |
| Language family: | Penutian Yok-Utian Utian Costanoan Karkin |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | - | |
| ISO 639-2: | nai | |
| ISO 639-3: | krb | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Karkin (also called Los Carquines in Spanish) is a name of one sub-group of the indigenous Ohlone people of California, as well as the name of the language they spoke.
Karkin (Los Carquines) was a Utian language in the Ohlone/Costanoan language family that was spoken in Northern California by the division of the Ohlone who who lived in the Carquinez Strait region. It is only documented from a single vocabulary obtained in the late 1700's, and has probably not been spoken for 200 years. It was classified extinct in the 1950s.
All Costanoan languages went extinct, but some are being studied and revived.
[edit] References
- Beeler, M. Northern Costanoan, International Journal of American Linguistics, (1961) 27: 191-197.
- Ethnologue
- Native Languages - Ohlone
| Ohlone/Costanoan Indigenous People of California |
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| Sub-Groups: |
| Karkin • Chochenyo • Ramaytush • Tamyen • Awaswas • Mutsun • Rumsen • Chalon • List of Tribes & Villages |
| Culture: |
| Mythology • Traditional Narratives • Utian languages • Hunting & Gathering • Native American |
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