nìNavajo plltxe nga srak?

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wm.annis

My new baby arrived today!

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No, not the Activist Survival Guide — that's just there for a size comparison.  I now have my very own copy of the Magnum Opus (and I do mean magnum): The Navajo Language: a Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary.

Woo-hoo!

Txur’Itan

Quote from: wm.annis on January 19, 2010, 04:15:51 PM
My new baby arrived today!

'

No, not the Activist Survival Guide — that's just there for a size comparison.  I now have my very own copy of the Magnum Opus (and I do mean magnum): The Navajo Language: a Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary.

Woo-hoo!

Pretty cool.  And LOL @ the pointing out the ASG as not being your new baby...

By the way.  Are you learning the Navajo language, or is that just there as a reference for later?
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suomichris

Very cool!  That thing is some kind of intense, for sure...

I dunno what you level of Navajo is and whatnot, but there is a great new textbook called Diné Bizaad Bínáhoo'aah that is pretty great:

http://www.amazon.com/Dine-Bizaad-Binahooaah-Rediscovering-Language/dp/1893354733/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263949870&sr=8-1

wm.annis

Quote from: Txur'Itan on January 19, 2010, 07:09:15 PMBy the way.  Are you learning the Navajo language, or is that just there as a reference for later?

I have tried to learn Navajo on and off.  First, it's a very difficult language (unless you're Apache, I suppose).  Second, I'm in Wisconsin — far from Dinétah — so I have no one to speak it with.  But I keep making tries at it.

Quote from: suomichris on January 19, 2010, 07:12:00 PM
Very cool!  That thing is some kind of intense, for sure...

I dunno what you level of Navajo is and whatnot, but there is a great new textbook called Diné Bizaad Bínáhoo'aah that is pretty great:

It's actually not great.  Like many beginning textbooks for Navajo, for some reason it just decided to tell you nothing at all about the 4th person — because it's hard, or they don't want to explain the whole animacy hierarchy.  Which, you know, you need to produce correct sentences.

Ftiafpi

looks like fun. I've always thought that if I was to learn one obscure language it would be Navajo.

wm.annis

Quote from: Ftiafpi on January 20, 2010, 05:40:05 PMI've always thought that if I was to learn one obscure language it would be Navajo.

Well, it's not that obscure.  The good thing about it, compared to many other Native American languages, is that you can actually find learning materials for it.  And there are about ~150,000 speakers, so you also have a chance to speak it with a native speaker.

Ftiafpi

Quote from: wm.annis on January 20, 2010, 07:16:11 PM
Quote from: Ftiafpi on January 20, 2010, 05:40:05 PMI've always thought that if I was to learn one obscure language it would be Navajo.

Well, it's not that obscure.  The good thing about it, compared to many other Native American languages, is that you can actually find learning materials for it.  And there are about ~150,000 speakers, so you also have a chance to speak it with a native speaker.

Well, I suppose obscure isn't the right word, I guess less common but still well spoken languages is what I meant.

Eywayä tsmukan

Nang! That's interesting, i never heard about this language before.

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wm.annis

Quote from: Eywayä tsmukan on January 20, 2010, 07:42:06 PMNang! That's interesting, i never heard about this language before.

Navajo is very interesting for a number of reasons.  One important job it had during WWII was to provide an unbreakable code for the US — Code talkers.  Until some time in the 1960s, I think, the Navajo language was in fact considered a state secret. 

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ke plltxe ngeyä kawng tìrey lu

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So... we need to break 150.000 speakers. that is going to be tough.

Were going to need better servers.

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Quote from: wm.annis on January 19, 2010, 04:15:51 PM
My new baby arrived today!

'

No, not the Activist Survival Guide — that's just there for a size comparison.  I now have my very own copy of the Magnum Opus (and I do mean magnum): The Navajo Language: a Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary.

Woo-hoo!

Giant black books with fancy gold writing are so awesome, I have a bunch that I don't read a lot, when people come to your place you get to brag about how smart and intellectual you are.
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Taronyu Ayunilyä Alahe

Quote from: Nìwotxkrr Tìyawntsaheylu on January 24, 2010, 09:03:43 PM
Quote from: wm.annis on January 19, 2010, 04:15:51 PM
My new baby arrived today!

'

No, not the Activist Survival Guide — that's just there for a size comparison.  I now have my very own copy of the Magnum Opus (and I do mean magnum): The Navajo Language: a Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary.

Woo-hoo!

Giant black books with fancy gold writing are so awesome, I have a bunch that I don't read a lot, when people come to your place you get to brag about how smart and intellectual you are.

hahha.. Giant black books with fancy gold writings are amazing..
classical..
and intellectual-like  ;D
ke plltxe ngeyä kawng tìrey lu