The Karkin language (also called ''Los Carquines'' in Spanish) is one of eight Ohlone languages. It was formerly spoken in north central California, but by the 1950s there were no more native speakers."Karkin."
''Ethnologue.'' Retrieved 22 July 2012. The language was historically spoken by the Karkin people, who lived in the Carquinez Strait region in the northeast portion of the San Francisco Bay estuary. Karkin's only documentation is a single vocabulary obtained by linguist-missionary Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta at Mission Dolores in 1821. Although meager, the records of Karkin show that it constituted a distinct branch of Ohlone, strikingly different from the neighboring

Chochenyo Ohlone language Chochenyo (also called ''Chocheño'', ''Northern Ohlone'' and ''East Bay Costanoan'') is the spoken language of the Chochenyo people. Chochenyo is one of the Ohlone languages in the Utian family. Linguistically, Chochenyo, Tamyen and Ramaytush ...

and other Ohlone languages spoken farther south.Beeler 1961

Notes

References

* Beeler, Madison S. 1961. "Northern Costanoan." ''International Journal of American Linguistics'' 27: 191–197. * Callaghan, Catherine A. 1997. "Evidence for Yok-Utian." ''International Journal of American Linguistics'' 63:18–64. * Golla, Victor. 2007. "Linguistic Prehistory." ''California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity''. Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar, eds., pp. 71–82. New York: Altamira Press. . * Milliken, Randall T. 1995. ''A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Region, 1769–1810''. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press. * Milliken, Randall T. 2008. ''Native Americans at Mission San Jose''. Banning, CA: Malki-Ballena Press. .

External links

Karkin language
overview at the

Survey of California and Other Indian Languages The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages (originally the Survey of California Indian Languages) at the University of California at Berkeley documents, catalogs, and archives the indigenous languages of the Americas. The survey also hosts ...

Costanoan/Ohlone Indian Language
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Karkin Language Ohlone languages Extinct languages of North America

Notes

References

Further reading

External links