| Coast Miwok | |
| States: | United States |
| Region: | California |
| Ethnicity: | Coast Miwok |
| Extinct: | 1978 with the death of Sarah Ballard |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Yok-Utian |
| Fam2: | Utian |
| Fam3: | Miwokan |
| Fam4: | Western |
| Iso3: | csi |
| Glotto: | coas1301 |
| Glottorefname: | Coast Miwok |
Coast Miwok was one of the Miwok languages spoken in California, from San Francisco Bay to Bodega Bay. The Marin and Bodega varieties may have been separate languages. All of the population has shifted to English.
According to Catherine A. Callaghan's Bodega Miwok Dictionary, nouns have the following cases, expressed with suffixes: present subjective, possessive, allative, locative, ablative, instrumental, and comitative. Sentences are most commonly subject-verb-object, but Callaghan says that "syntax is relatively free".
The following is the Bodega dialect:
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | plain | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| voiced | (pronounced as /link/) | (pronounced as /link/) | (pronounced as /link/) | ||||||
| Affricate | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||||
| Fricative | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Tap | (pronounced as /link/) | ||||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
Phonemes in parentheses are introduced from Spanish loan words. Allophones of introduced sounds, /b ɡ/ include /β ɣ/.
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ |