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- proper noun One of eight divisions of the
Ohlone Native American people of northernCalifornia . - proper noun The spoken language by this people, an Ohlone
dialect in theUtian family.
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The Karkin along Carquinez straits and the Polye further south were gathered into San José.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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The Karkin language was spoken on the shores of the Carquinez Strait in the northern San Francisco Bay. Karkin is attested only in a single, short vocabulary recorded by Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta in 1821. Source link.
April 25, 2011