Language
The Esselen language is a language isolate. It is hypothetically part of the Hokan family.
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“For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.”
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Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
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