Coast Miwok language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Coast Miwok |
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| Native to | United States |
| Region | California |
| Ethnicity | Coast Miwok |
| Extinct | ca. 1970. |
| Language family | |
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.
Grammar
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."
Phonology
The following is the Bodega dialect:
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Stop | plain | p | t̪ ⟨t⟩ | t̠ ⟨ṭ⟩ | k | ʔ ⟨'⟩ | ||
| voiced | (b) | (d) | (ɡ) | |||||
| Affricate | tʃ ⟨c⟩ | |||||||
| Fricative | (f) | s | ʃ ⟨ṣ⟩ | h | ||||
| Tap | (ɾ) ⟨r⟩ | |||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j ⟨y⟩ | |||||
Phonemes in parentheses are introduced from Spanish loan words. Allophones of introduced sounds, /b ɡ/ include /β ɣ/.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
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