CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGES GOLD LEAF Adorned with shimmering shades of

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allowing you to adjust to fit any finger

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this striking pattern is adored by households across the world

their significance has broadened to include all manner of designed objects

CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGES GOLD LEAF Adorned with shimmering shades ofNowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village dwelling peoples spoke seventy eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about Californias Indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen