Coast Miwok language
Extinct Miwok language of California, US
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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.
| Coast Miwok | |
|---|---|
| Native to | United States |
| Region | California |
| Ethnicity | Coast Miwok |
| Extinct | 1978, with the death of Sarah Ballard[1] 1 (1994)[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | csi |
| Glottolog | coas1301 |
| ELP | Coast Miwok |
Grammar
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
The following is the Bodega dialect:
Phonemes in parentheses are introduced from Spanish loan words. Allophones of the introduced sounds /b ɡ/ include /β ɣ/.[4]
