Central Sierra Miwok is a
Miwok
The Miwok (also spelled Miwuk, Mi-Wuk, or Me-Wuk) are members of four linguistically related Native American groups indigenous to what is now Northern California, who traditionally spoke one of the Miwok languages in the Utian family. The word ' ...
language spoken in
California
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, in the upper
Stanislaus and
Tuolumne valleys. Today it is spoken by the
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California
The Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California is a federally recognized tribe of Miwok people in Tuolumne County, California. The Chicken Ranch Rancheria Miwok are central Sierra Miwok, an indigenous people of California.
Government ...
, a
federally recognized tribe
This is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States of America. There are also federally recognized Alaska Native tribes. , 574 Indian tribes were legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United ...
of Central Sierra Miwoks.
Phonology
With the orthography of the 1960 dictionary, the sounds of Central Sierra Miwok are,
In later transcription, /j/ was written and /ɨ/ . Long vowels are written etc.
Notes
External links
Central Sierra Miwok test
Central Sierra Miwok wiktionary incubator testCentral Sierra Miwok Dictionary with Texts (1960) by
L. S. Freeland and
Sylvia M. Broadbent
Sylvia Marguerite Broadbent (London, United Kingdom, 26 February 1932 - Arlington, California, United States, 30 July 2015) was an American anthropologist and professor, specializing in Amerindian peoples.
Early life
Broadbent was born in Lon ...
Southern Sierra Miwok California Language Archive
Central Sierra Miwok basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical DatabaseCentral Sierra Miwokat the
Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages (originally the Survey of California Indian Languages) at the University of California at Berkeley documents, catalogs, and archives the indigenous languages of the Americas. The survey also hosts ...
OLAC resources in and about the Central Sierra Miwok language
Utian languages
Miwok
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