Northern 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
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
, in the upper
Mokelumne and
Calaveras valleys.
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Phonology
References
* 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 languageNorthern Sierra Miwok, World Atlas of Language Structures OnlineNorthern Sierra Miwok Dictionary, Volumes 109-110
Utian languages
Miwok
Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas
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