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Conlangery #22: Pronouns

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The Complexity of Navajo Verbs

The noun system is very funky to me because it makes interesting new use of infixes before the final consonant. How do infixes develop in the first place? That's my question. But I was just looking at the verb. And he even has the historical development of that from different suffixes and such. Yes, the verbs are complicated. So although honestly, some things about it seem kind of regular to me, but then once you pile it all on top, then it starts to look a bit funky. Yeah. His declensions are... They're not wacky, but they're wacky,but they don't seem to be particularly irregular. Uh-huh

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