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name
The language spoken by this tribe, which is either a language isolate or perhaps Hokan.
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noun
A member of an indigenous people of California who reside along the Klamath River.
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History
Borrowed from Karok káruk (“upstream, upriver (people)”), because they live upstream on the Klamath River while the Yurok live downstream.
Across languages
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