The Western Miwok Subgroup > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Western Miwok
Alternate Name:
Western Miwokan
Code:
wmiw
Code Authority:
LINGUIST List
Code Standard:
Private Use
Families:
Miwok-Costanoan (Utian)
Parent Subgroup:
Miwok; Miwuk; Moquelumnan; Miwokan (miwo)
Child Languages:
Lake Miwok; Miwok (Lake); Miwok, Lake; Miwok du lac (fra); Miwokano del lago (spa) (lmw)
Coast Miwok; Costal Miwok; Miwok (Bodega); Miwok (Coast); Miwok, Coast; Bollanos (csi)
Brief Description:
"Western Miwok, one of the two branches of the Miwok languages of north-central California, consists of two languages: Coast Miwok, originally spoken in Marin and Sonoma counties, is extinct. Lake Miwok has two or three semi-speakers, none of them actively using the language, who live at the Middletown Rancheria, on ancestral Lake Miwok territory to the southeast of Clear Lake." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 25

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