Central Sierra Miwok
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| Central Sierra Miwok | |
|---|---|
| Saclan | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | California |
| Ethnicity | Sierra Miwok |
Native speakers | (12 cited 1994)[1] |
| 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[edit]
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[edit]
| 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) |
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ (y) | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
International Phonetic Alphabet[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ Central Sierra Miwok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ 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.
- ^ Freeland, Broadbent. "Central Sierra Miwok Dictionary with Texts (1960)". Retrieved 2017-03-25.
External links[edit]
- Central Sierra Miwok wiktionary incubator test
- Central Sierra Miwok Dictionary with Texts (1960), by L. S. Freeland and Sylvia M. Broadbent
- Southern Sierra Miwok, California Language Archive
- Metathesis, Sierra Miwok
- Central Sierra Miwok basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
- Central Sierra Miwok at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- OLAC resources in and about the Central Sierra Miwok language
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