Plains Miwok language
Appearance
Plains Miwok | |
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Native to | United States |
Ethnicity | Plains and Sierra Miwok |
Extinct | maybe 1960s; 1 speaker in 1962[1] or 1990s[2] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pmw |
Glottolog | plai1259 |
ELP | Plains Miwok |
Plains Miwok, also known as Valley Miwok, was one of the Miwok languages spoken in central California by the Plains Miwok people. It was spoken in the deltas of the San Joaquin and Cosumnes Rivers. Plains Miwok was once one of the most populous Miwok languages. All of the population has shifted to English.
References
- ^ H. Landar in Sebeok (1977)
- ^ Plains Miwok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Callaghan, Catherine A. Plains Miwok Dictionary. University of California Publications in Linguistics, vol. 105. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
- Plains Miwok Indians. "Rodriguez-Nieto Guide" Sound Recordings (California Indian Library Collections), LA008. Berkeley: California Indian Library Collections, 1993. "Sound recordings reproduced from the Language Archive sound recordings at the Language Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley".