Northern Sierra Miwok

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Northern Sierra Miwok
Saclan
Native to
Yok-Utian
  • Miwokan
    • Eastern
      • Sierra Miwok
        • Northern Sierra Miwok
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.[1]

Phonology

Consonants
Bilabial Dental Alveolar Post-
alveolar 		Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive plain p
t̪
 ⟨t⟩
t
 ⟨ṭ⟩ 		k ʔ
voiced b[a]
d[a]
Affricate tʃ ⟨č⟩
Nasal m
n
 		ŋ
Fricative f[a] s ʃ ⟨š⟩[a] h
Trill
r[a]
Approximant w
l
 		j ⟨y⟩
  1. ^ a b c d e 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[a] o oː
Open a aː
  1. ^ taken from loan words

[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Northern Sierra Miwok at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ISBN 9780520097124
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  • 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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