Northern Sierra Miwok

Northern Sierra Miwok
Saclan
Native to	United States
Region	California
Ethnicity	Sierra Miwok
Extinct	(6 speakers reported in 1994)^[1]
Language family	Yok-Utian Utian Miwokan Eastern Sierra Miwok Northern Sierra Miwok
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`nsq`
Glottolog	`nort2968`^[2]

Northern Sierra Miwok (also called Sacian) is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Mokelumne and Calaveras valleys.^[1]

References

1 2 Northern Sierra Miwok at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Northern Sierra Miwok". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Callaghan, Catherine A. 1987. Northern Sierra Miwok dictionary. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Freeland, L. S. 1951. Language of the Sierra Miwok. (Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics, Memoir 6.) Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Golla, Victor. 2011. California Indian languages. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Northern Miwok Indians. "Rodriguez-Nieto Guide" Sound Recordings (California Indian Library Collections), LA007, LA140. 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

Northern Sierra Miwok at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Plains Miwok, California Language Archive
OLAC resources in and about the Northern Sierra Miwok language
Northern Sierra Miwok, World Atlas of Language Structures Online
Miwok language keyboards, Languagegeek

Languages of California

Indigenous

Algic	Wiyot Yurok

Athabascan	Tolowa Hupa Mattole Kato Wailaki

Chumashan	Obispeño Island Chumash Purisimeño Ineseño Barbareño Ventureño

Ohlone	Karkin Chochenyo Ramaytush Tamyen Awaswas Mutsun Rumsen Chalon

Hokan	Chimariko Karuk Achomawi Atsugewi Northeastern Pomo Eastern Pomo Southeastern Pomo Northern Pomo Central Pomo Southern Pomo Kashaya Washo Mojave Kumeyaay Yana Yahi

Penutian	Klamath-Mudoc Yokuts Wintu Bay Miwok Coast Miwok Lake Miwok Plains Miwok Central Sierra Miwok Northern Sierra Miwok Southern Sierra Miwok Valley Maidu Northeast Maidu Northwest Maidu Nisenan

Shastan	Konomihu New River Shasta Okwanuchu Shasta

Uto Aztecan	Cahuilla Cupeño Kawaiisu Kitanemuk Luiseño-Juaneño Mono Northern Paiute Panamint Serrano Tataviam Tongva Ute

Wintuan	Nomlaki Patwin Southern Patwin Wintu

Yokutsan	Buena Vista Yokuts, Chukchansi, Gashowu Yokuts, Kings River Yokuts, Palewyami, Tule-Kaweah Yokuts, Valley Yokuts

Yukian	Yuki, Wappo

Language isolates	Esselen, Chimariko, Karuk, Salinan, Takelma

Non-Indigenous

Indo-European	American English California English Chicano English Spanish Armenian Punjabi Russian

Asian	Chinese Korean Tagalog Vietnamese

Italics indicate extinct languages

Miwok indigenous peoples of California

Ethnic groups	Bay Coast Lake Plains and Sierra

Federally recognized tribes	Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians California Valley Miwok Tribe Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria Ione Band of Miwok Indians Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians Middletown Rancheria Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians United Auburn Indian Community Wilton Rancheria

Regions inhabited	Lake County / Contra Costa County Marin County / Sonoma County Sierra Nevada / Central Valley

Culture	Coast narratives Lake narratives Plains and Sierra narratives Hunting and gathering Kuksu religion Cosmology Languages

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