Karkin

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Karkin
Spoken in:	United States (California)
Total speakers:	extinct
Language family:	Penutian  Yok-Utian   Utian    Costanoan     Karkin
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	-
ISO 639-2:	nai
ISO 639-3:	krb
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Karkin (also called Los Carquines in Spanish) is a name of one sub-group of the indigenous Ohlone people of California, as well as the name of the language they spoke.

Karkin (Los Carquines) was a Utian language in the Ohlone/Costanoan language family that was spoken in Northern California by the division of the Ohlone who who lived in the Carquinez Strait region. It is only documented from a single vocabulary obtained in the late 1700's, and has probably not been spoken for 200 years. Although meager, the records of Karkin show that it constituted a distinct branch of Costanoan which was strikingly different from its neighboring language Chochenyo.

All Costanoan languages went extinct, but some are being studied and revived.

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