Native to United States Ethnicity Coast Miwok ISO 639-3 csi | Region California Extinct ca. 1970. | |
Language family Yok-Utian
Utian
Miwokan
Western
Coast Miwok | ||
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."
References
Coast Miwok language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA