Central Sierra Miwok Explained

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.

Phonology

With the orthography of the 1960 dictionary, the sounds of Central Sierra Miwok are,[1]

Consonants!!Bilabial!Dental!Alveolar!Post-
alveolar
!Palatal!Velar!Glottal
Nasalpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Plosivepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Fricativepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/
Approximantpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Vowels!!Front!Central!Back
Closepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/
Midpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Openpronounced as /link/

In later transcription, /j/ was written and /ɨ/ . Long vowels are written etc.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Central Sierra Miwok Dictionary with Texts (1960). Freeland, Broadbent. 2017-03-25.