Central Sierra Miwok

Central Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Stanislaus and Tuolumne valleys. Today it is spoken by the Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California, a federally recognized tribe of Central Sierra Miwoks.

Central Sierra Miwok
Saclan
Native to	United States
Region	California
Ethnicity	Sierra Miwok
Native speakers	(12 cited 1994)
Language family	Yok-Utian Utian Miwokan Eastern Sierra Miwok Central Sierra Miwok
Language codes
ISO 639-3	csm
Glottolog	cent2140
ELP	Sierra Miwok (shared)
Central Sierra Miwok is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Phonology

With the orthography of the 1960 dictionary, the sounds of Central Sierra Miwok are,

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n			ŋ ⟨ŋ⟩
Plosive	p	t̪ ⟨t⟩	t ⟨ṭ⟩	tʃ ⟨č⟩		k	ʔ ⟨ʔ⟩
Fricative			s	ʃ ⟨š⟩			h
Approximant	w		l		j ⟨j⟩

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ ⟨y⟩	u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

In later transcription, /j/ was written ⟨y⟩ and /ɨ/ ⟨ï⟩. Long vowels are written ⟨aꞏ⟩ etc.

External links

• Central Sierra Miwok wiktionary incubator test
• Central Sierra Miwok Dictionary with Texts (1960), by L. S. Freeland and Sylvia M. Broadbent
• Southern Sierra Miwok, California Language Archive
• Metathesis, Sierra Miwok
• Central Sierra Miwok basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
• Central Sierra Miwok at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
• OLAC resources in and about the Central Sierra Miwok language