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Northern Sierra Miwok

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Northern Sierra Miwok
Saclan
Native toUnited States
RegionCalifornia
EthnicitySierra Miwok
Extinct1990s[1]
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.[1]

Phonology

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Consonants[2]
Bilabial Dental Alveolar Post-
alveolar
Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive plain p ⟨t⟩ t ⟨ṭ⟩ ⟨č⟩ k ʔ
voiced b[a] d[a]
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[2]
Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close i ɨ ɨː u
Mid e ə[a] o
Open a
  1. ^ taken from loan words

References

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