Distribution area of the Ohlonetalen. The limits are approximate.
Ohlone of Costanoan (Costanoan) is a language family whose languages were spoken by Ohlone, an Indian people living in Northern California, from San Francisco Bay to the south of Monterey Bay. The languages, spread over more than 50 villages, were a branch of the Utians. Currently, Ohlonetalen is extinct, although with revitalization projects it is attempted to revitalize them. Layout
Ohlone consisted of eight different varieties: Awaswas, Chalon, Chochenyo (or Chocheño), Karkin, Mutsun, Ramaytush, Rumsen and Tamyen. Some of these variants called dialects, others languages. Linguistic Catherine Callaghan has extensively researched the family and came to the following classification into 3 subgroups and a total of 6 languages (2001):
The differences between the Ohlonetalen are similar to those between Romanian languages.
All Ohlonetals originated from the Proto-Ohlone. According to the Yok-Hypothesis, this language was around 1500 BC. originated in the east of the San Francisco Bay Area, by segregating the Proto-Uti, which is about 2500 BC. Arrived from the Great Basin in California.
Together with the Miwok languages, Ohlone is the family of the Foreigners. In 1991, Geoffrey Gamble suggested the family of Yok-foreign languages, which would consist of the Yokut languages and the Utians. The Yok-foreign languages, in turn, are part of the hypothetical superfamily of the Penutian languages.
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