
Conlangery #105: Navajo/Diné (natlang)
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The Open Container Classifier
A verb classifying anything in an open container. Glass of water, dish of food, box of apples, a corpse in a coffin, or dirt on a shovel. It's it's interesting whenever you see any of these classifier systems to see what ends up being grouped into them. So next, rather confusingly, Navajo has two separate classifier verbs for plural objects.
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