Coast Miwok was one of the Miwok languages spoken in California, from San Francisco Bay to Bodega Bay. The Marin and Bodega varieties may have been separate languages. All of the population has shifted to English.
Phonology The following is the Bodega dialect:
+ConsonantsLabialDentalAlveolarPost- alveolarPalatalVelarGlottalNasalStopplain voiced()()()Affricate Fricative() Tap() Approximant
Phonemes in parentheses are introduced from Spanish loan words. Allophones of the introduced sounds include .
+VowelsFrontCentralBackCloseMidOpen
Morphology 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.
Syntax Sentences are most commonly subject-verb-object, but Callaghan says that "syntax is relatively free".
References
Bibliography
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".
External links Coast Miwok at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Coast Miwok, California Language Archive OLAC resources in and about the Coast Miwok language Coast (Bodega) Miwok basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database