Salinan
Salinan was a language isolate once spoken in United States.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Salinan is the historical Indigenous language of the Salinan people of the central coast of California. It has been extinct since the death of the last speaker in 1958.
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Words in Salinan
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | litse | |
| eye | Sukenet* | |
| ear | entat* | |
| nose | enet* | |
| tooth | suluknai* | |
| tongue | epal* | |
| hand | men* | |
| blood | akath* | |
| bone | axakh* | |
| skin | axwem* | |
| knee | topoi* | |
| breast | iSo7* | |
| liver | aSx* | |
| water | te'a' | |
| fire | ta7auh* | |
| sun | na7* | |
| star | tacuwan* | |
| stone | Cxa7* | |
| mountain | loiyam* | |
| leaf | Stan7* | |
| night | smakhai* | |
| dog | xuC* | |
| fish | swan* | |
| louse | tik7e7* | |
| one | t7oL* | |
| two | kakhSu* | |
| I | hekh* | |
| you | mo7* | |
| we | hakh* | |
| drink | iSim* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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