Central Sierra Miwok

Central Sierra Miwok
Saclan
Native to United States
Region California
Ethnicity Sierra Miwok
Native speakers
 12 (1994)[1]
Yok-Utian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 csm
Glottolog cent2140[2]

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.

Alphabet

Miwok uses the following 28 letter alphabet: Aa Čĉ Ee Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Ŋŋ Pp Ss Šš Tt Uu Ww Yy ˀ ˀAˀa ˀEˀe ˀIˀi ˀOˀo ˀUˀu ˀWˀw ˀYˀy ˀ' Øø this is in addition to using · - á í ṭ ý as accents or pronunciation markers

Phonology

Consonants
Bilabial Dental Alveolar Post-
alveolar		 Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop p t̪ (t) t (t̥) k ʔ
Affricate tʃ (č)
Nasal m n ŋ
Fricative s ʃ (š) h
Approximant w l j (j)
Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ (y) u
Mid e o
Open a

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International Phonetic Alphabet

Aa=a Čč=tʃ Ee=e Hh=h Ii=i Jj=j Kk=k Ll=l Mm=m Nn=n Ŋŋ=ŋ Oo=o Pp=p Ss=s Šš=ʃ Tt=t̪ (Ṭṭ=t̥) Uu=u Ww=w Yy=ɨ ˀ=ʔ ˀAˀa=ʔa ˀEˀe=ʔe ˀIˀi=ʔi ˀOˀo=ʔo ˀUˀu=ʔu ˀWˀw=ʔw ˀYˀy=ʔɨ

Notes

  1. ↑ Central Sierra Miwok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Central Sierra Miwok". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Freeland, Broadbent. "Central Sierra Miwok Dictionary with Texts (1960)". Retrieved 2017-03-25.

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