Talk:Southern Athabascan grammar

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Isn't this article somewhat too similar to the grammar section of the Navajo language article? In other words: doesn't the description draw too heavily on a single Southern Athabascan language? Steinbach 14:03, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Please fix it if you have time. – ishwar (speak) 04:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious

Many of these nouns may be quite complex, as in Navajo

chidí naa’na’í bee’eldǫǫhtsoh bikáá’ dah naaznilígíí "army tank" (lit. "a car that they sit up on top of that crawls around :with a big thing with which an explosion is made")

I seriously doubt that this is the actual word for "tank". It looks rather like a description that some speaker gave when describing a tank to someone not expected to know what it is. A "word" like this would be way too long for normal usage.

Benwing (talk) 23:40, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps not for spoken, colloquial usage, where I expect an Anglicism, but in formal, written Navajo, it wouldn't seem that outrageous to me, at least unless the term is mentioned repeatedly in the same text. That said, I don't really have any relevant personal experience with Navajo ... --Florian Blaschke (talk) 16:10, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is doubtful that there is any "formal written" Navajo in any sense comparable to "formal written" English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.232.80.66 (talk) 19:19, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]