Talk:Southern Athabascan grammar

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Isn't this article somewhat too similar to the grammar section of the Navajo language article? In other words: doesn't the description draw too heavily on a single Southern Athabascan language? Steinbach 14:03, 30 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. Please fix it if you have time. – ishwar  (speak)  04:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Dubious

 * Many of these nouns may be quite complex, as in Navajo
 * 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")
 * 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")

I seriously doubt that this is the actual word for "tank". It looks rather like a description that some speaker gave when describing a tank to someone not expected to know what it is. A "word" like this would be way too long for normal usage.

Benwing (talk) 23:40, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Perhaps not for spoken, colloquial usage, where I expect an Anglicism, but in formal, written Navajo, it wouldn't seem that outrageous to me, at least unless the term is mentioned repeatedly in the same text. That said, I don't really have any relevant personal experience with Navajo ... --Florian Blaschke (talk) 16:10, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

It is doubtful that there is any "formal written" Navajo in any sense comparable to "formal written" English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.232.80.66 (talk) 19:19, 23 September 2016 (UTC)