Thursday, July 21, 2005

Navajo

ch'é'étiin = 'doorway'

(lit., 'something has a path horizontally out')


chidí naa'na'í bee'eldǫǫhtsoh bikáá' dah naaznilígíí = 'army tank'

(lit., 'a car that they sit up on top of that crawls around with a big thing with which an explosion is made').

5 Comments:

Blogger Cameron said...

Gee, that's really interesting, Cameron. Why do you mention it?

8:02 PM  
Blogger Cameron said...

Actually, I was just in New Mexico for a phylogenetics conferrence. On the last day, we visited the Taos Pueblo, so I was just interested in Indian languages. Isn't weird that Navajo doesn't actually use verbs in grammatical constructions!

8:04 PM  
Blogger Cameron said...

How was the conferrence?

8:04 PM  
Blogger Cameron said...

It was mildly interesting. There were a lot of biologists around who I found sort of difficult to work with, but I learned some things, had a nice time in a nice place, and we got some work done on our own project.

8:06 PM  
Blogger Cameron said...

cool!

8:06 PM  

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