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Miwok
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Mi·wok  (mwk)
n. pl. Miwok or Mi·woks
1.
a. A Native American people formerly composed of numerous groups inhabiting central California from the Sierra Nevada foothills to the San Francisco Bay area, with a small number of present-day descendants in the same region.
b. A member of this people.
2. Any of the Penutian languages of this people.
[Central Sierra Miwok míw··k, people.]
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Noun1.Miwok - a member of the North American Indian people living in the central Sierra Nevada in California
Penutian - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages
2.Miwok - a Penutian language spoken by the Miwok
Moquelumnan
Penutian - a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California
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