Coast Miwok language

Coast Miwok
Native to	United States
Region	California
Ethnicity	Coast Miwok
Extinct	ca. 1970.
Language family	Yok-Utian Utian Miwokan Western Coast Miwok
Language codes
ISO 639-3	csi
Glottolog	coas1301[1]

Coast Miwok was one of the Miwok languages spoken in California, from San Francisco Bay to Bodega Bay.^[2] The Marin and Bodega varieties may have been separate languages. All of the population has shifted to English.

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."

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Coast Miwok". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. Coast Miwok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

• Callaghan, Catherine A. 1970. Bodega Miwok Dictionary. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• 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".
• Keeling, Richard. "Ethnographic Field Recordings at Lowie Museum of Anthropology," 1985. Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. v. 2. North-Central California: Pomo, Wintun, Nomlaki, Patwin, Coast Miwok, and Lake Miwok Indians

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