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The Karkin language (also called Los Carquines in Spanish) one of eight Ohlone languages. It was extinct by the 1950s and was formerly spoken in north central California.Karkin is an Ohlone/Costanoan language in the Utian language family which is a Yok-Utian language in the Penutian language family.It was historically spoken by the Karkin peoplewho lived in the Carquinez Strait region in the northeast portion of the San Francisco Bay estuary.