Salinan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of an indigenous population native to the region of the Salinas Valley, California.
name
  1. The language of this people.

Word forms

Salinan Salinans

Etymology

The Salinan were named after the Salinas River by Robert Latham first in 1856, and by John Wesley Powell in 1891.

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