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As of 2008, two or three partial speakers of Lake Miwok were living at the Middletown Rancheria southeast of Clear Lake, but none of them actively used the language. (p. 160.)

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2011

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USA, California

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Middletown Rancheria southeast of Clear Lake

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Middletown Rancheria southeast of Clear Lake

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Year of info

2010

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USA, California

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38.6426,-122.3849

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2010

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38.6426,-122.3849

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Data for the number of native speakers comes from L. Hinton (1994). 1 (1994 L. Hinton), 2–3 semispeakers only (Golla 2007) (2016).

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2009

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Lake Miwok has two or three semi-speakers, none of them actively using the language, who live at the Middletown Rancheria, on ancestral Lake Miwok territory to the southeast of Clear Lake.

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2008

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USA, California

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Middletown Rancheria, on ancestral Lake Miwok territory to the southeast of Clear Lake.

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2005

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38.9166666667,-122.666666667

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