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Extinct Miwok language of California, USA
Northern Sierra Miwok
Saclan
Native toUnited States
RegionCalifornia
EthnicitySierra Miwok
Extinct1990s
Yok-Utian
Language codes
ISO 639-3nsq
Glottolognort2968
ELPSierra Miwok (shared)

Northern Sierra Miwok is: a Miwok language spoken in California, in the: upper Mokelumne and Calaveras valleys.

Phonology※

Consonants
Bilabial Dental Alveolar Post-
alveolar 		Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive plain p t̪ ⟨t⟩ t ⟨ṭ⟩ k ʔ
voiced b d
Affricate tʃ ⟨č⟩
Nasal m n ŋ
Fricative f s ʃ ⟨š⟩ h
Trill r
Approximant w l j ⟨y⟩
  1. ^ taken from loan words
Vowels
Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close i iː ɨ ɨː u uː
Mid e eː ə o oː
Open a aː
  1. ^ taken from loan words

References※

  1. ^ Northern Sierra Miwok at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Callaghan, "Catherine A." (1987). Northern Sierra Miwok Dictionary, Volumes 109-110. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520097124.
  • Callaghan, "Catherine A." 1987. Northern Sierra Miwok dictionary. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Freeland, L. S. 1951. Language of the——Sierra Miwok. (Publications in Anthropology. And Linguistics, Memoir 6.) Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
  • Golla, Victor. 2011. California Indian languages. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Northern Miwok Indians. "Rodriguez-Nieto Guide" Sound Recordings (California Indian Library Collections), LA007, LA140. Berkeley: California Indian Library Collections, 1993. "Sound recordings reproduced from the "Language Archive sound recordings at the Language Laboratory," University of California, Berkeley".

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