| Northern Sierra Miwok | |
|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | plain | p | t̪ ⟨t⟩ | t ⟨ṭ⟩ | k | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b [a] | d [a] | ||||||
| Affricate | tʃ ⟨č⟩ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Fricative | f [a] | s | ʃ ⟨š⟩ [a] | h | ||||
| Trill | r [a] | |||||||
| 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 [a] | o | oː | |
| Open | a | aː | ||||
- ^ taken from loan words
References
- ^
a
b
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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