Northern Sierra Miwok facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Northern Sierra Miwok |
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|---|---|
| Saclan | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | California |
| Ethnicity | Sierra Miwok |
| Extinct | (No known L1 speakers) |
| Language family | |
Northern Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Mokelumne and Calaveras valleys.
Phonology
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | plain | p | t̪ ⟨t⟩ | t ⟨ṭ⟩ | k | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b | d | ||||||
| Affricate | tʃ ⟨č⟩ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ ⟨š⟩ | h | ||||
| Trill | r | |||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j ⟨y⟩ | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i | iː | ɨ | ɨː | u | uː |
| Mid | e | eː | ə | o | oː | |
| Open | a | aː | ||||
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