Northern Sierra Miwok | |
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Saclan | |
Native to | United States |
Region | California |
Ethnicity | Sierra Miwok |
Extinct | 1990s[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nsq |
Glottolog | nort2968 |
ELP | Sierra Miwok (shared) |
Northern Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Mokelumne and Calaveras valleys.[1]
Phonology
Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | plain | p | t̪ ⟨t⟩ | t ⟨ṭ⟩ | k | ʔ | ||
voiced | b[lower-alpha 1] | d[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||
Affricate | tʃ ⟨č⟩ | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
Fricative | f[lower-alpha 1] | s | ʃ ⟨š⟩[lower-alpha 1] | h | ||||
Trill | r[lower-alpha 1] | |||||||
Approximant | w | l | j ⟨y⟩ |
Front | Central | Back | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
short | long | short | long | short | long | |
Close | i | iː | ɨ | ɨː | u | uː |
Mid | e | eː | ə[lower-alpha 1] | o | oː | |
Open | a | aː |
- ↑ taken from loan words
References
- 1 2 Northern Sierra Miwok at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ 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".
External links
- Northern Sierra Miwok at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Plains Miwok, California Language Archive
- OLAC resources in and about the Northern Sierra Miwok language
- Northern Sierra Miwok, World Atlas of Language Structures Online
- Northern Sierra Miwok Dictionary, Volumes 109-110
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