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Conlangery SHORTS #05: Classification

Conlangery Podcast

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The Athabasculine Languages

Navajo has a flat flexible object classificatory verb for blankets and coats but it does not have one for things like plates specifically. There's my favorite class one for mushy matter which in the Wikipedia article says is for ice cream mud and slumped over drunk people. So that's a pretty rich system a lot of the other Athabasculine languages are typically less complex than Navajo because Navajo does everything turns that dial to 11.

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