Miwok languages

E17575

Native American language family language family

Miwok languages are a group of closely related Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Miwok peoples of central and northern California.

Aliases (5)

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American language family → language family →
basicWordOrder	SOV →
documentation	described in early 20th-century fieldwork →
ethnicGroup	Miwok people →
glottologCode	miwo1273 →
hasLanguage	Bay Miwok → Central Sierra Miwok → Coast Miwok → Lake Miwok → Northern Sierra Miwok → Plains Miwok → Saclan → Southern Sierra Miwok → Tamyen →
hasMorphologicalFeature	rich verbal morphology → suffixing morphology →
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length → glottalized consonants →
hasSubgroup	Bay Miwok → Coast Miwok → Eastern Miwok → Plains Miwok → Sierra Miwok →
hasSyntacticFeature	case marking on nouns → postpositions →
historicalLinguistics	proposed relation to Yokuts languages →
languageBranch	Eastern Miwok → Western Miwok →
languageFamilyColor	American →
linguisticTypology	agglutinative language →
region	Sacramento Valley → San Francisco Bay Area → Sierra Nevada foothills →
revitalizationEffort	community language classes → dictionary projects → orthography development →
spokenIn	California → United States →
status	endangered → moribund →
subfamilyOf	Utian languages → Yok-Utian languages →
traditionalRegion	central California → northern California →
writingSystem	Latin script →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Miwok people → Northern Sierra Miwok → Saclan ("Miwok") → Southern Sierra Miwok →	languageFamily
California Penutian languages ("Lake Miwok language") → Utian →	hasPart
Utian languages ("Miwok–Costanoan languages") →	alsoKnownAs
Utian ("Miwok–Costanoan") →	hasAlternativeName
Utian languages →	hasBranch
Northern Sierra Miwok ("Miwok") →	hasEthnonym
Utian languages →	hasMember
Penutian languages ("Miwok–Costanoan languages") →	hasSubgroup
Hokan languages ("Pomoan languages") →	includes
California linguistic area →	includesLanguageFamily
American Indian Council of Mariposa County Inc. →	languageFamilyAssociated
Utian ("Miwok") →	languageFamilyOf
Ohlone languages →	relatedTo
Miwok people ("Lake Miwok language") →	traditionalLanguage