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Navajo or Navaho ( / ˈnævəhoʊ, ˈnɑːvə -/ NAV-ə-hoh, NAH-və-; [2] Navajo: Diné bizaad [tìnépìz̥ɑ̀ːt] or Naabeehó bizaad [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, as are other languages spoken across the western areas of North America. Navajo is spoken primarily in the ...
Chakobsa. Chakobsa is a Northwest Caucasian language, possibly in the Circassian subgroup. According to linguist John Colarusso, Chakobsa is also known as shikwoshir or the 'hunting language' and was originally a secret language used only by the princes and nobles, and is still used by their descendants. An informant of Colarusso has asserted ...
Toki Pona (rendered as toki pona [a] and often translated as 'the language of good'; [b] IPA: [ˈtoki ˈpona] ( listen ⓘ); English: ⫽ ˈtoʊki ˈpoʊnə ⫽) is a philosophical artistic constructed language known for its small vocabulary, simplicity, and ease of acquisition. [5] It was created by Sonja Lang ( née Elen Kisa), a Canadian ...
The Naʼvi language (Naʼvi: Lìʼfya leNaʼvi) is a fictional constructed language originally made for the 2009 film Avatar. In the film franchise, the language is spoken by the Naʼvi, a race of sapient humanoids indigenous to the extraterrestrial moon Pandora. The language was created by Paul Frommer, a professor at the USC Marshall School ...
knows de 3m sa̱ñá 1. EX Jiní de sa̱ñá knows 3m 1.EX "He knows me." Personal pronoun in preverbal position Ró'ó 2 kí'i̱n will.go va̱'a good ga more Ró'ó kí'i̱n va̱'a ga 2 will.go good more "It will be better if you go." Personal pronoun in normal subject position Va̱ni well nisá'a did ró 2 Va̱ni nisá'a ró well did 2 "You did well." Third person pronouns For the third ...
Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. '' native language '') was the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is a local language isolate that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq .
Chumashan was a family of languages that were spoken on the southern California coast by Native American Chumash people, from the Coastal plains and valleys of San Luis Obispo to Malibu, neighboring inland and Transverse Ranges valleys and canyons east to bordering the San Joaquin Valley, to three adjacent Channel Islands: San Miguel, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz.
Like hacker slang, leet enjoys a looser grammar than standard English. The loose grammar, just like loose spelling, encodes some level of emphasis, ironic or otherwise. A reader must rely more on intuitive parsing of leet to determine the meaning of a sentence rather than the actual sentence structure.