• Source: Coast Miwok language

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.




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".




Phonology


The following is the Bodega dialect:

Phonemes in parentheses are introduced from Spanish loan words. Allophones of introduced sounds, /b ɡ/ include /β ɣ/.




References






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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

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