Ohlone languages

Ohlone
Costanoan, Ohlonean
EthnicityOhlone
Geographic
distribution		San Francisco Bay Area
Extinct1950s
Linguistic classificationYok-Utian
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologcost1250
Pre-contact distribution of the Ohlone languages
Notes
ISO 639-3 codes
  • krb: Karkin
  • cst: N. Costanoan
  • css: S. Costanoan

The Ohlone languages, also known as Costanoan, form a small Indigenous language family historically spoken in Northern California, both in the southern San Francisco Bay Area and northern Monterey Bay area, by the Ohlone people. Along with the Miwok languages, they are members of the Utian language family. The most recent work suggests that Ohlone, Miwok, and Yokuts are branches of a Yok-Utian language family.[1]

Myth of the Coyote in the Rumsen language recorded by Alfred Kroeber in 1902
  1. ^ Utian and Penutian classification: Levy 1978, p. 485–486 (citing Kroeber), Callaghan 1997, Golla 2007. Yok-Utian as a taxonomic category: Callaghan 1997, Callaghan 2001; Golla 2007, p. 76