Central Sierra Miwok | |
Nativename: | Saclan |
States: | United States |
Region: | California |
Ethnicity: | Sierra Miwok |
Speakers: | 12 |
Date: | 1994 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Yok-Utian |
Fam2: | Utian |
Fam3: | Miwokan |
Fam4: | Eastern |
Fam5: | Sierra Miwok |
Iso3: | csm |
Glotto: | cent2140 |
Glottorefname: | Central Sierra Miwok |
Elp: | 4056 |
Elpname: | Sierra Miwok (shared) |
Map: | Lang Status 20-CR.svg |
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.
With the orthography of the 1960 dictionary, the sounds of Central Sierra Miwok are,[1]
Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
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Plosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ |
Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
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Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
Open | pronounced as /link/ |
In later transcription, /j/ was written and /ɨ/ . Long vowels are written etc.