Plains Miwok language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Plains Miwok |
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|---|---|
| Native to | United States |
| Ethnicity | Plains and Sierra Miwok |
| Extinct | maybe 1960s; 1 speaker in 1962 or 1990se18 |
| Language family | |
Plains Miwok, also known as Valley Miwok, was one of the Miwok languages spoken in central California by the Plains Miwok people. It was spoken in the deltas of the San Joaquin and Cosumnes Rivers. Plains Miwok was once one of the most populous Miwok languages. All of the population has shifted to English.
Phonology
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | plain | p | t | k | ʔ ⟨'⟩ | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||
| Affricate | tʃ ⟨c⟩ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Fricative | s | h | |||||
| Tap | ɾ ⟨r⟩ | ||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j ⟨j⟩ | ||||
Allophones of /b tʃ ɡ n s/ include [β ts ɣ ŋ ʂ].
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ ⟨y⟩ | u |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
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