Miwok, Plains

PMW

Alternate Names: Valley Miwok

Genealogy:

Miwok-Costanoan
Miwokan
Eastern Miwokan

Demographics: No known L1 speakers. The last speaker died in the late 1990s (Golla 2007).

Language Use: Shifted to English [eng]. Passive knowledge is retained by a few. There is interest in language revival (Golla 2007).

Language Development: Dictionary.

Nation of Origin: United States