• Northern Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Mokelumne and Calaveras valleys. taken from loan words taken from loan words...
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    The Plains and Sierra Miwok were once the largest group of California Indian Miwok people, Indigenous to California. Their homeland included regions of...
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    name Miwok comes from the Northern Sierra Miwok word miw·yk meaning 'people.' Language family by Mithun (1999): Eastern Miwok Plains Miwok † Bay Miwok (a...
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    one of the Miwok languages in the Utian family. The word Miwok means people in the Miwok languages. Anthropologists commonly divide the Miwok into four...
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    Utian (also Miwok–Costanoan, previously Mutsun) is a family of Indigenous languages spoken in Northern California, United States. The Miwok and Ohlone...
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  • Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indian of California. The California Valley Miwok are Sierra Miwok, an Indigenous people of California. The tribe conducts business...
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    language spoken by the Native American people called the Southern Sierra Miwok of Northern California. Southern Sierra Miwok is a member of the Miwok...
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  • The Bay Miwok are a cultural and linguistic group of Miwok, a Native American people in Northern California who live in Contra Costa County. They joined...
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  • Tribe Miwok languages Bay Miwok language Coast Miwok language Lake Miwok language Sierra Miwok language Northern Sierra Miwok Central Sierra Miwok Southern...
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    and with the term Miwok itself, which is the Central Sierra Miwok word for people. The Coast Miwok spoke their own Coast Miwok language in the Utian linguistic...
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    Mount Diablo (category Articles containing Northern Sierra Miwok-language text)
    dogs came from in trade". A Southern Sierra Miwok name for the mountain is Supemenenu, and a Northern Sierra Miwok name is Oj·ompil·e. It has also been...
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  • Lake Miwok, and Coast Miwok. Traditional territory of their ancestors included the Sierra Nevada foothills and Central California. The languages they...
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  • California is a federally recognized tribe of Miwok in Amador County, California. The Buena Vista Miwok are Sierra Miwok, an indigenous people of California. The...
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    god, and a trickster god. The Miwok mythology is similar to other Native American myths of Northern California. The Miwok believed there existed a "people...
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    Century and with the term Miwok itself, which is the Central Sierra Miwok word for people. The Lake Miwok spoke their own Lake language in the Utian linguistic...
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    northern California Mechoopda, northern California Nisenan, Southern Maidu, eastern-central California Miwok, Me-wuk, central California Coast Miwok,...
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    recognized Native American tribe of Miwok people based in northern California. They were formed from Wilton Rancheria Miwok and the Me-Wuk Indian Community...
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  • An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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  • An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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    hollowing. Central Sierra Miwok: țakáț'a Chukchansi: tá-wit Chumash: wansak Hupa: kinah¬dun-ts’e:y’ Maidu: pak'papa Mutsun: sallik Northern Paiute: hau tsavaiya...
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    with the Mono tribe and Sierra Miwok tribe on the western side, and the Kawaiisu and Tübatulabal tribes in the southern Sierra. Today, some historic intertribal...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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    Yokuts and Miwok. In the mid-1990s, an estimated 50 people spoke the Owens Valley Paiute language, also known as Eastern Mono. Informal language classes...
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    John Peabody Harrington (category Indigenous languages of California)
    some languages, such as Obispeño (Northern) Chumash, Kitanemuk, and Serrano. He gathered more than 1 million pages of phonetic notations on languages spoken...
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  • and benne ("sesame"). The Gullahs’ English-based creole language is strikingly similar to Sierra Leone Krio of West Africa and contains such identical expressions...
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  • Miwok language is an extinct language of Northern California, traditionally spoken in an area adjacent to the Clear Lake. It is one of the languages of...
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    northern two-thirds of Delaware. The Lenape later migrated, largely settling in Ontario, Canada and Oklahoma. Unami is one of two Delaware languages;...
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    The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
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    [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North...
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    Iroquoian (which Cherokee is the only known branch of) from the Northern Iroquoian languages occurred approximately 4,000–3,000 years ago as Late Archaic...
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