Southern Sierra Miwok

Southern Sierra Miwok (also known as Meewoc, Mewoc, Me-Wuk, Miwoc, Miwokan, Mokélumne, Moquelumnan, San Raphael, Talatui, Talutui, and Yosemite) is a Utian language spoken by the Native American people called the Southern Sierra Miwok of Northern California.

The original territory of the Southern Sierra Miwok people is similar to modern day Mariposa County, California.

[2] Below are the 15 consonants of the Southern Sierra Miwok written in IPA (the common orthography is noted within ⟨ ⟩ ): There is considerable variation within the phonemes listed in the chart above.

When positioned intervocalically or after voiced consonants there is free variation between the velar and slightly postvelar variants of the following sounds: ([k̺] ~ [ɣ] ~ [g]).

Below are definitions of common terms used to describe the basic structure of a Southern Sierra Miwok word: Below is a list of frequently occurring morphophonemic rules which Broadbent (1964) defines as "a rule of phonologically conditioned variation which applies to all morphemes, or allomorphs, of suitable morphophonemic shape.".

Below is a chart of allomorphs of common Southern Sierra Miwok irregular verbal bases.

Southern Sierra Miwok has many verbal suffixes, most of which are fully productive and can be applied to any stem of an appropriate shape, class and meaning.

The three categories of nominal themes are: Southern Sierra Miwok does not require the use of independent personal pronouns.

Lastly, nominal themes may occur either word-medially or in the prefinal position before case or Series 1 or 2 pronominal suffixes.

Below is an example of a typical postfix: Southern Sierra Miwok also has a class of monomorphemic words called particles.

Personal pronominal suffixes are separated into four series in the Southern Sierra Miwok language.

Furthermore, the names given to each case suffix do not necessarily reflect the full range of their applications from the point of view of their Latin grammar counterparts.

Due to the rich case system in Southern Sierra Miwok, the word order is of little to no importance to the syntax or semantics.

Below are examples of possible complete utterances: Field recordings of Southern Sierra Miwok were made in the 1950s by linguist Sylvia M. Broadbent, and several speakers, especially Chris Brown, Castro Johnson, and Alice Wilson.