Northern Sierra Miwok

Northern Sierra Miwok
Saclan
Native to	United States
Region	California
Ethnicity	Sierra Miwok
Extinct	1990s[1]
Language family	Yok-Utian Utian Miwokan Eastern Sierra Miwok Northern Sierra Miwok
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nsq
Glottolog	nort2968
ELP	Sierra Miwok (shared)

Northern Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Mokelumne and Calaveras valleys.^[1]

Phonology

Consonants^[2]

		Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	plain	p	t̪ ⟨t⟩	t ⟨ṭ⟩	tʃ ⟨č⟩		k	ʔ
	voiced	b[a]		d[a]
Nasal		m		n			ŋ
Fricative		f[a]		s	ʃ ⟨š⟩[a]			h
Trill				r[a]
Approximant		w		l		j ⟨y⟩

1. taken from loan words

Vowels^[2]

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i	iː	ɨ	ɨː	u	uː
Mid	e	eː	ə[a]		o	oː
Open			a	aː

1. taken from loan words

References

1. Northern Sierra Miwok at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Callaghan, Catherine A. (1987). Northern Sierra Miwok Dictionary, Volumes 109-110. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520097124.

• Callaghan, Catherine A. 1987. Northern Sierra Miwok dictionary. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Freeland, L. S. 1951. Language of the Sierra Miwok. (Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics, Memoir 6.) Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
• Golla, Victor. 2011. California Indian languages. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Northern Miwok Indians. "Rodriguez-Nieto Guide" Sound Recordings (California Indian Library Collections), LA007, LA140. Berkeley: California Indian Library Collections, 1993. "Sound recordings reproduced from the Language Archive sound recordings at the Language Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley".

External links

• Northern Sierra Miwok at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
• Plains Miwok, California Language Archive
• OLAC resources in and about the Northern Sierra Miwok language
• Northern Sierra Miwok, World Atlas of Language Structures Online
• Northern Sierra Miwok Dictionary, Volumes 109-110