- a family of eight languages, now extinct, spoken by American Indian peoples of Penutian descent residing in coastal California.
- any of the speakers of these languages or their descendants, who traditionally inhabited the coast and adjacent river valleys from San Francisco Bay south to Monterey Bay and Point Sur.
- of or relating to the Costanoans or their language.
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