Costanoan

Meanings

Noun

A member of the Ohlone people, native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California.

Proper Noun

The Utian (Penutian) family of languages of this people.

Related

Similar words

Ohlone, Muwekma
Ohlone

Origin

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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