Miwok languages

Miwok
Miw·yk
Ethnicity:	Miwok
Geographic distribution:	California, western slopes of Sierra Nevada
Linguistic classification:	Yok-Utian Utian Miwok
Subdivisions:	—

The Miwok (Miwuk, [míwːɨːk]) or Miwokan languages, also known as Moquelumnan, are a group of endangered languages spoken in central California in the Sierra Nevada. There are a few dozen speakers of the three Sierra Miwok languages, and as of 1994, two speakers of Lake Miwok. The best attested language is Southern Sierra Miwok, from which we get the name Yosemite.^[1]

Languages

• Eastern Miwok
  • Plains Miwok (†)
  • Bay Miwok (aka Saclan) (†)
  • Sierra Miwok
    • Northern Sierra Miwok
    • Central Sierra Miwok
    • Southern Sierra Miwok
• Western Miwok
  • Coast Miwok (†) (Bodega and Marin dialects)
  • Lake Miwok

Notes

1. ^ Origin of the word Yosemite (and linked references)

References

• Broadbent, Sylvia. (1964). The Southern Sierra Miwok Language. University of California publications in linguistics (Vol. 38). Berkeley: University of California Press.