Chalon language

Chalon
Soledad
Native to	United States
Region	California
Ethnicity	Chalon people
Era	attested 19th century [1]
Language family	Yok-Utian Utian Ohlone Northern Chalon
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in Northern Ohlone cst)
Glottolog	chal1270

The Chalon language is one of eight Ohlone languages, historically spoken by the Chalon people of Native Americans who lived in Northern California. Also called Soledad, it belongs to one of the Ohlone (or Costanoan) languages of the Utian family. It is poorly attested, the only documentation originating from wordlists in the 19th century and a fragment of a catechism. ^{[1] [2]} Recent work suggests that Chalon may be transitional between the northern and southern groups of Ohlone languages. ^[3]

Notes

1. "Chalon". California Language Archive. Retrieved September 2, 2024.
2. Shaul, David Leedom (2012). "Chalon and Rumsen (Ohlone/Costanoan) Catechisms". Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 32 (2): 161–186. ISSN   0191-3557.
3. Gordon 2005

References

• Kroeber, Alfred L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Washington, D.C: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. (map of villages, page 465)
• Merriam, C. Hart. Village Names in Twelve California Mission Records, assembled and edited by Robert F. Heizer. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey Number 74. Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, 1968.
• Milliken, Randall. A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769–1910 Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1995. ISBN   0-87919-132-5 (alk. paper)
• Milliken, Randall. Ethnohistory of the Rumsen. Papers in Northern California Anthropology No. 2. Salinas, CA: Coyote Press, 1987.
• Teixeira, Lauren. The Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area, A Research Guide. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1997. ISBN   0-87919-141-4.

External links

• Chalon language overview at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
• Chalon Dictionary