Southern Sierra Miwok language
- Southern Sierra Miwok language
Southern Sierra Miwok is a Utian language spoken by the Native American people called the Southern Sierra Miwok of Northern California.
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Consonants
The 15 consonants of Southern Sierra Miwok:
Vowels
The 6 vowels of Southern Sierra Miwok:
Length
Since vowel and consonant length is contrastive, length (represented as IPA|/ː/ is considered to be a separate (archi-)phoneme.
yllable
The syllable structure of Southern Sierra Miwok is the following::: IPA|CV(ː)(C)
ee also
* Miwok
* Valley and Sierra Miwok
* Penutian
References
*citation
last=Broadbent
first=Sylvia
year=1964
title=The Southern Sierra Miwok Language
journal=University of California publications in linguistics
volume=38
place=Berkeley
publisher=University of California Press
* citation
last=Callaghan
first=Catherine
year=2001
title=More evidence for Yok-Utian: A reanalysis of the Dixon and Kroeber sets
journal=International Journal of American Linguistics
volume=67
issue=3
pages=313-346
* citation
last=Mithun
first=Marianne
year=1999
title=The languages of Native North America
place=Cambridge
publisher=Cambridge University Press
ISBN=0-521-23228-7
External links
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=92484 Ethnologue: Utian]
* [http://www.yosemite.ca.us/history/miwok.html Online books about the Southern Sierra Miwok]
* [http://www.yosemite.ca.us/history/origin_of_word_yosemite.html Origin of the word Yosemite (and linked references)]
* [http://www.yosemite.ca.us/history/southern_sierra_miwok_language/ Southern Sierra Miwok Dictionary]
* [http://www.californiaprehistory.com/tribmap.html Native Tribes, Groups, Language Families and Dialects of California in 1770] (map after Kroeber)
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