
Conlangery #59: Loan Words
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The Disadvantages of Chinese Loanwords
Navajo is highly resistant to borrowing, but it did do a few borrowings. So their word for money is beso, which is from peso, obviously, so Spanish. But the word for white folks is related to the word for America America, rather, which is billagana. There's no M in Navajo. And nor is there an R. You have to you have to chunk through.
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