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Coast Miwok language information


Coast Miwok
Native toUnited States
RegionCalifornia
EthnicityCoast Miwok
Extinct1978 with the death of Sarah Ballard[1]
Language family
Yok-Utian
  • Utian
    • Miwokan
      • Western
        • Coast Miwok
Language codes
ISO 639-3csi
Glottologcoas1301
ELPCoast Miwok

Coast Miwok was one of the Miwok languages spoken in California, from San Francisco Bay to Bodega Bay.[2] The Marin and Bodega varieties may have been separate languages. All of the population has shifted to English.

  1. ^ Coast Miwok at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Coast Miwok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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