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Salinan traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Salinan people of the central California coast. Salinan oral literature, as documented primarily by J. Alden Mason , shows its closest links with that of other central California groups, such as the Yokuts .(
The Salinan people — a historic and present day tribe of indigenous peoples of California. A tribe affected by the Spanish and Mexican California Mission Indians system in Alta California . Their pre-contact homelands were within present day Monterey County and northern San Luis Obispo County .
Carian is a Unicode block containing the Masson set and four additional characters for writing the ancient Carian language in Caria and Egypt, where the Carians served as mercenaries. Carian [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
The Carian alphabets are a number of regional scripts used to write the Carian language of western Anatolia. They consisted of some 30 alphabetic letters, with several geographic variants in Caria and a homogeneous variant attested from the Nile delta, where Carian mercenaries fought for the Egyptian pharaohs.
Carian soldier of the Achaemenid army, circa 480 BC. Relief on the tomb of Xerxes I. During the Second Persian invasion of Greece (480-479 BC), the cities of Caria were allies of Xerxes I and they fought at the Battle of Artemisium and the Battle of Salamis, where the Queen of Halicarnassus Artemisia commanded the contingent of 70 Carian ships.
The Carian language is an extinct language of the Luwic subgroup of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken by the Carians. The known corpus is small, and the majority comes from Egypt. Circa 170 Carian inscriptions from Egypt are known, whilst only circa 30 are known from Caria itself. [3]
The earliest known member of the Hecatomnid family was the dynast Hyssaldomus.He was the father of Hecatomnus, better known as the founder of the dynasty, and a woman named Aba, who may also have been the mother of Hecatomnus' children.
USS Salinan (ATF-161) was an Abnaki-class tug built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the Salinan peoples (native inhabitants of what is now the Central Coast of California, in the Salinas Valley ), she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.