Costanoan
name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of the Ohlone people, native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California.
- 2 a Penutian language spoken by the Costanoan wordnet
- 3 a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The Utian (Penutian) family of languages of this people.
Etymology
From Spanish Costeños (“coastal people”). The Spanish explorers and Missionaries to Northern California called the native people of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas the Costeños as early as 1769.
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