Language
The Esselen language is a language isolate. It is hypothetically part of the Hokan family.
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“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
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“An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)