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🧑‍🦱 A Native American 🗣️ An extinct language
Esselen

Esselen

9.9
A dead language once spoken by a Native American group on the central California coast near Monterey
  • noun
  • Specialized
: idioma esselen
  • The Esselen language was once spoken along the central coast of California.

Examples

  • Very few records exist of the Esselen language due to its early extinction.

  • Linguists have tried to reconstruct the vocabulary of Esselen from historical sources.

  • The Esselen language is no longer spoken.

  • Many Esselen words have been lost to history.

  • Linguists have tried to reconstruct the vocabulary of Esselen, the extinct language of a Native American people.

  • The Esselen language was once spoken by the indigenous people along the central coast of California.

  • Very few records exist of the Esselen language, which was spoken before its extinction.

Synonyms

Esselen language
vsEsselen
  • Specialized
9.9

A language no longer spoken that the Esselen people used in central California

refers to the same language but names California without regional detail

Compounds

Esselen language
  • Specialized
9.9

A language no longer spoken that the Esselen people used in central California

Surface Forms

Esselen singular
Esselens plural

Etymology

Esselen also names the language once spoken by that people on the California coast. Because the word is the people's own name, it is used for both the people and their language, and the language is now extinct so we only have early records.