Plains Miwok language

Plains Miwok
Native to United States
Ethnicity Plains and Sierra Miwok
Extinct maybe 1960s; 1 speaker in 1962[1]
or 1990s[2]
Yok-Utian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pmw
Glottolog plai1259[3]

Plains Miwok, also known as Valley Miwok, was one of the Miwok languages spoken in central California by the Plains Miwok people. It was spoken in the deltas of the San Joaquin and Cosumnes Rivers. Plains Miwok was once one of the most populous Miwok languages. All of the population has shifted to English.

References

  1. H. Landar in Sebeok (1977)
  2. Plains Miwok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Plains Miwok". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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