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.Phonology
With the orthography of the 1960 dictionary, the sounds of Central Sierra Miwok are,
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post-
alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| Stop | p | t̪ | t | | | k | ʔ |
| Affricate | | | | tʃ | | | |
| Nasal | m | | n | | | ŋ | |
| Fricative | | | s | ʃ | | | h |
| Approximant | w | | l | | j | | |
| Front | Central | Back |
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | | o |
| Open | | a | |
In later transcription, /j/ was written and /ɨ/. Long vowels are written etc.
