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thumb|Map of Ramaytush tribelets and villages at the time of contact thumb|Ramaytush dancers at Mission San Francisco de Asís in modern [[San Francisco, California]]

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  • Etymology
  • Ramaytush tribes and villages
  • Ramaytush Ohlone people
  • See also
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thumb|Map of Ramaytush tribelets and villages at the time of contact thumb|Ramaytush dancers at Mission San Francisco de Asís in modern [[San Francisco, California]]

The Ramaytush () or Rammay-tuš people are a linguistic subdivision of the Ohlone people of Northern California. The term Ramaytush was first applied to them in the 1970s, but the modern Ohlone people of the peninsula have claimed it as their ethnonym. The ancestors of the Ramaytush Ohlone people have lived on the peninsula—specifically in the area known as San Francisco and San Mateo county—for thousands of years. Prior to the California genocide, the Ohlone people were not consciously united as a singular socio-political entity. In the early twentieth century anthropologists and linguists began to refer to the Ramaytush Ohlone as San Francisco Costanoans—the people who spoke a common dialect or language within the Costanoan branch of the Utian family. Anthropologists and linguists similarly called the Tamyen people Santa Clara Costanoans, and the Awaswas people Santa Cruz Costanoans.

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