Central Sierra Miwok
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| Central Sierra Miwok | |
|---|---|
| Saclan | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | California |
| Ethnicity | Sierra Miwok |
Native speakers | (12 cited 1994) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | csm |
| Glottolog | cent2140 |
| ELP | Sierra Miwok (shared) |
 Central Sierra Miwok is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Central Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Stanislaus and Tuolumne valleys. Today it is spoken by the Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California, a federally recognized tribe of Central Sierra Miwoks.
Phonology
With the orthography of the 1960 dictionary, the sounds of Central Sierra Miwok are,
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ŋ⟩ | ||||
| Plosive | p | t̪ ⟨t⟩ | t ⟨ṭ⟩ | k | ʔ ⟨ʔ⟩ | ||
| Affricate | tʃ ⟨č⟩ | ||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ ⟨š⟩ | h | ||||
| Approximant | w | l | j ⟨j⟩ |
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ ⟨y⟩ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
In later transcription, /j/ was written ⟨y⟩ and /ɨ/ ⟨ï⟩. Long vowels are written ⟨aꞏ⟩ etc.
Notes
- ^ Central Sierra Miwok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Freeland, Broadbent. "Central Sierra Miwok Dictionary with Texts (1960)". Retrieved 2017-03-25.
External links
- Central Sierra Miwok wiktionary incubator test
- Central Sierra Miwok Dictionary with Texts (1960), by L. S. Freeland and Sylvia M. Broadbent
- Southern Sierra Miwok, California Language Archive
- Metathesis, Sierra Miwok
- Central Sierra Miwok basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
- Central Sierra Miwok at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- OLAC resources in and about the Central Sierra Miwok language
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