Northern Sierra Miwok | |
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Saclan | |
Native to | United States |
Region | California |
Ethnicity | Sierra Miwok |
Extinct | 1990s[1] |
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]
Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | plain | p | t̪ ⟨t⟩ | t ⟨ṭ⟩ | k | ʔ | ||
voiced | b[a] | d[a] | ||||||
Affricate | tʃ ⟨č⟩ | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
Fricative | f[a] | s | ʃ ⟨š⟩[a] | h | ||||
Trill | r[a] | |||||||
Approximant | w | l | j ⟨y⟩ |
Front | Central | Back | ||||
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short | long | short | long | short | long | |
Close | i | iː | ɨ | ɨː | u | uː |
Mid | e | eː | ə[a] | o | oː | |
Open | a | aː |