Costanoan languages

E73823

The Costanoan languages are a group of closely related, now mostly extinct Native American languages once spoken along the central coast of California.


Statements (46)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language family
language family
alternativeName Ohlone languages
Ohlone languages
surface form: "Ohlonean languages"
arealAssociation California linguistic area
classificationStatus generally accepted as part of Utian
country United States of America
surface form: "United States"
culturalAssociation Ohlone peoples
surface form: "Ohlone culture"
declineCause Spanish colonization of California
language shift to English
language shift to Spanish
missionization
documentationBy linguists
documentationSource field notes
mission records
word lists
ethnolinguisticGroup Ohlone peoples
surface form: "Ohlone"
extinctionPattern most varieties extinct by 20th century
geographicExtent Big Sur region of California
surface form: "Big Sur coast region"

Monterey Bay region
surface form: "Monterey Bay area"

San Francisco Bay Area
hasLanguage Awaswas
Chochenyo
Karkin
Mutsun
Ramaytush
Rumsen
Tamyen
historicalEra pre-contact California
ISOStatus individual Costanoan languages may have separate ISO 639-3 codes
languageBranchOf Utian languages
languageFamilyColor American
linguisticTypology agglutinative
neighboringLanguageFamilies Esselen language
Miwok languages
Salinan language
Yokutsan languages
surface form: "Yokuts languages"
region North America
revitalizationStatus subject of language revitalization efforts
spokenBy Costanoan people
Ohlone peoples
surface form: "Ohlone people"
spokenIn California, United States
surface form: "California"

central coast of California
status mostly extinct
subgroupOf Utian languages
surface form: "Utian language family"
writingSystem Latin script (for modern documentation)

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Utian languages hasBranch Costanoan languages
Utian languages hasMember Costanoan languages
California Penutian languages hasPart Costanoan languages
Utian hasPart Costanoan languages

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