Language
The Esselen language is a language isolate. It is hypothetically part of the Hokan family.
Read more about this topic: Esselen People
Famous quotes containing the word language:
“A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“While you are divided from us by geographical lines, which are imaginary, and by a language which is not the same, you have not come to an alien people or land. In the realm of the heart, in the domain of the mind, there are no geographical lines dividing the nations.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
“It’s not that we want the political jobs themselves ... but they seem to be the only language the men understand. We don’t really want these $200 a year jobs. But the average man doesn’t understand working for a cause.”
—Jennie Carolyn Van Ness (b. c. 1890–?)