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  • proper noun Ohlone people, native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California.
  • proper noun The Utian (Penutian) family of languages of this people.

Etymologies

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Costanoan is an English derivative of the Spanish word Costeños (meaning the "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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