thumb|Precontact distribution of the Salinan.|alt=
thumb|Precontact distribution of the Salinan.|alt=
The Salinan are an Indigenous people of California whose ancestral territory is in the southern Salinas Valley and the Santa Lucia Range in the Central Coast of California. Their Salinan language was a linguistic isolate.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).