Northern Sierra Miwok
Saclan
Native toUnited States
RegionCalifornia
EthnicitySierra Miwok
Extinct1990s[1]
Yok-Utian
Language codes
ISO 639-3nsq
Glottolognort2968
ELPSierra Miwok (shared)

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

Phonology

Consonants
Bilabial Dental Alveolar Post-
alveolar		 Palatal Velar Glottal
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⟩
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 taken from loan words
Vowels
Front Central Back
shortlong shortlong shortlong
Close iiː ɨɨː uuː
Mid eeː ə[lower-alpha 1] ooː
Open aaː
  1. ↑ taken from loan words

[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Northern Sierra Miwok at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ 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".



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