Central Sierra Miwok

Central Sierra Miwok is a Miwok language spoken in California, in the upper Stanislaus and Tuolumne valleys. Today it is spoken by the Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California, a federally recognized tribe of Central Sierra Miwoks. As of 2012, an active revitalization program is underway in the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians.

Phonology

With the orthography of the 1960 dictionary, the sounds of Central Sierra Miwok are,

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal
Plosive
Fricative
Approximant

	Front	Central	Back
Close
Mid
Open

In later transcription, /j/ was written and /ɨ/. Long vowels are written etc.