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Coast Miwok language

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Coast Miwok
Native toUnited States
RegionCalifornia
EthnicityCoast Miwok
Extinct1978, with the death of Sarah Ballard[1]
1 (1994)[2]
Yok-Utian
Language codes
ISO 639-3csi
Glottologcoas1301
ELPCoast Miwok

Coast Miwok was one of the Miwok languages spoken in California, from San Francisco Bay to Bodega Bay.[3] The Marin and Bodega varieties may have been separate languages. All of the population has shifted to English.

Grammar

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According to Catherine A. Callaghan's Bodega Miwok Dictionary, nouns have the following cases, expressed with suffixes: present subjective, possessive, allative, locative, ablative, instrumental, and comitative. Sentences are most commonly subject-verb-object, but Callaghan says that "syntax is relatively free".[4]

Phonology

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The following is the Bodega dialect:

Consonants
Labial Dental Alveolar Post-
alveolar 		Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n
Stop plain p t̪ ⟨t⟩ t̠ ⟨ṭ⟩ k ʔ ⟨'⟩
voiced (b) (d) (ɡ)
Affricate tʃ ⟨c⟩
Fricative (f) s ʃ ⟨ṣ⟩ h
Tap (ɾ) ⟨r⟩
Approximant w l j ⟨y⟩

Phonemes in parentheses are introduced from Spanish loan words. Allophones of introduced sounds, /b ɡ/ include /β ɣ/.[4]

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid e o
Open a

References

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  1. ^ Coast Miwok at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Hinton, Leanne (1996). Flutes of fire: essays on California Indian languages (2nd print., rev ed.). Berkeley, California: Heyday Books. ISBN 978-0-930588-62-5.
  3. ^ Coast Miwok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  4. ^ a b Callaghan 1970.

Bibliography

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  • Callaghan, Catherine A. (1970). Bodega Miwok Dictionary. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Coast Miwok Indians. "Rodriguez-Nieto Guide" Sound Recordings (California Indian Library Collections), LA006. Berkeley: California Indian Library Collections, 1993. "Sound recordings reproduced from the Language Archive sound recordings at the Language Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley".
  • Keeling, Richard (1985). Ethnographic Field Recordings at Lowie Museum of Anthropology. Vol. 2: North-Central California: Pomo, Wintun, Nomlaki, Patwin, Coast Miwok, and Lake Miwok Indians. Berkeley: Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California.
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