Salinan

The term Salinan is hence applied to them, leaving the Eslen language to be provided with a name.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

For reasons there given the term Salinan was restricted to the San Antonio and San Miguel languages, leaving the present family without a name.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

Yana is highly polysynthetic and quite typically agglutinative, Salinan is no more synthetic than and as irregularly and compactly fusional (“inflective”) as Latin; both are pure-relational.

Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure 1921

Yana and Salinan are superficially very dissimilar languages.

Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure 1921

At San Carlos the principal band was the Runsen, of which a remnant still exists, and at Soledad were Chalone, besides others of Esselen, Salinan, and Yokuts lineage.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Salinan researches of 101 on Salinan population 102 on population of Cayuse 128 acknowledgments to 142 synonomy of tribes by 142

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

As afterwards mentioned under the Salinan family, the present family was included by Latham in the heterogeneous group called by him Salinas.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

Pueblo researches 139 classification of the Mariposan family 90 on the Moquelumnan family 92 on the Piman family 98 on the Pujunan family 99 on the Ehnik family of 100 on the Salinan family 102

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

Chumashan languages, Salinan languages held to be dialects of 101

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

On the north it is bounded by the Fresno River up to the point of its junction with the San Joaquin; thence by a line running to the northeast corner of the Salinan territory in San Benito County, California; on the west by a line running from San Benito to Mount Pinos.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868