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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > United States > Miwok, Southern Sierra

Miwok, Southern Sierra

A language of United States

ISO 639-3skd

Population  7 (1994 L. Hinton). Census (2000) lists 50 “Sierra Miwok” which may include Central [csm] and Northern [nsq].
Region  California, headwaters of the Merced and Chowchilla rivers and Mariposa Creek.
Alternate names   Me-Wuk, Meewoc, Mewoc, Miwoc, Miwokan, Mokélumne, Moquelumnan, San Raphael, Talatui, Talutui, Yosemite
Classification  Penutian, Yok-Utian, Utian, Miwokan, Eastern, Sierra
Language use  Shifting to English.
Comments  Nearly extinct.