Central Sierra Miwok

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.

Central Sierra Miwok
Saclan
Native toUnited States
RegionCalifornia
EthnicitySierra Miwok
Native speakers
(12 cited 1994)[1]
Yok-Utian
  • Utian
    • Miwokan
      • Eastern
        • Sierra Miwok
          • Central Sierra Miwok
Language codes
ISO 639-3csm
Glottologcent2140[2]

Phonology

With the orthography of the 1960 dictionary, the sounds of Central Sierra Miwok are,[3]

Consonants
Bilabial Dental Alveolar Post-
alveolar		 Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop p t̪ ⟨t⟩ t ⟨ṭ⟩ k ʔ ⟨ʔ⟩
Affricate tʃ ⟨č⟩
Nasal m n ŋ ⟨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

In later transcription, /j/ was written ⟨y⟩ and /ɨ/ ⟨ï⟩. Long vowels are written ⟨aꞏ⟩ etc.

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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