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Name:
Northern Sierra Miwok
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Miwok (Northern Sierra); Miwok, Northern Sierra; Seroushamne
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
6 (1994 L. Hinton). US Census (2000) lists 50 “Sierra Miwok” which may include Central [csm] and Southern [skd]
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
6
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
6
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
nsq
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Miwok-Costanoan (Utian)
Parent Subgroup:
Eastern Miwok; Eastern Miwokan (emiw)
Child Dialects:
Fiddletown (nsq-fid)
Ione (nsq-ion)
West Point (nsq-wes)
Camanche; Mokelumni (nsq-cam)
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Northern Sierra Miwok
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