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Definition of Costanoan
1. Noun. A member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay.
2. Noun. A Penutian language spoken by the Costanoan.
Definition of Costanoan
1. Proper noun. Ohlone people, native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California. ¹
2. Proper noun. The Utian (Penutian) family of languages of this people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Costanoan
Literary usage of Costanoan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"... of central California, but, notwithstanding a few •words in common with
Costanoan, of entirely unrelated vocabulary and therefore a distinct stock. ..."
2. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 2/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"A division of the Costanoan Indians inhabiting the country s. of Carquinez straits,
San Francisco bay,Cal., the name of the straits being derived from that ..."
3. A Mission Record of the California Indians: From a Manuscript in the by Alfred Louis Kroeber, José Francisco de Paula Señán, Vicente Francisco Sarría (1910)
"San Carlos is one of seven missions, extending from Sole- dad to San Francisco,
founded in Costanoan territory. The following report, which is one of the ..."
4. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 3/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"A former village, presumably Costanoan, connected with Dolores mission, San
Francisco, Cal.—Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. ..."
5. The Ethno-geography of the Pomo and Neighboring Indians by Samuel Alfred Barrett (1908)
"This would be Costanoan. In respect to this last statement, it would be of course
quite unsafe with but this as evidence to assume that the Costanoan stock ..."
6. American Indian Life by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons, Elsie Clews Barsons, Christopher Grant La Farge (1922)
"One of the principal dialectic divisions of the Costanoan stock was known as the
... MASON, JA The Mutsun Dialect of Costanoan. ..."
7. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 4/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"A Costanoan village situated in 1819 within 10 m. of Santa Cruz mission, Cal.
... A village, presumably Costanoan, formerly connected with San Canoe mission ..."
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