Northern Sierra Miwok

Northern Sierra Miwok
Saclan
Native to United States
Region California
Ethnicity Sierra Miwok
Extinct (6 speakers reported in 1994)[1]
Yok-Utian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nsq
Glottolog nort2968[2]

Northern Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Mokelumne and Calaveras valleys.[1]

Phonology

Consonants
Bilabial Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop plain p t̪ (t) t (t̥) 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)

Phonemes in italics are taken from loan words.

Vowels
Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close i ɨ ɨː u
Mid e ə o
Open a

[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Northern Sierra Miwok at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Northern Sierra Miwok". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Callaghan, Catherine A. (1987). Northern Sierra Miwok Dictionary, Volumes 109-110. University of California Press.



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