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The Miwok or Miwokan languages (/ˈmiːwɒk/; Miwok: [míwːɨːk]) also known as Moquelumnan are a group of endangered languages spoken in central California in the Sierra Nevada. There are a few dozen speakers of the three Sierra Miwok languages and as of 1994 two speakers of Lake Miwok. The best attested language is Southern Sierra Miwok from which we get the name Yosemite.