Coast Miwok language

Coast Miwok
Native toUnited States
RegionCalifornia
EthnicityCoast Miwok
Extinct1978, with the death of Sarah Ballard[1]
1 (1994)[2]
Yok-Utian
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.[3] 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. ^ Hinton, Leanne (1996). Flutes of fire: essays on California Indian languages (2nd print., rev ed.). Berkeley, California: Heyday Books. ISBN 978-0-930588-62-5.
  3. ^ Coast Miwok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)