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Enclitics. Enclitics Expressing Location or Direction with Enclitics. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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EncliticsExamples of enclitics
di at kindi At the house/store
d66’ from )lta’d66’ From the school
g00 To, toward T[‘00g00 To/toward outside
7g77 The one who Naalnish7g77 The one who is working/the one shich
7sh Yes/no question Naalnish7sh? Is he/she working?
Resource: Din4 Bizaad B7n1hoo’aah: Rediscovering The Navajo Language.p. 41Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, Ed.D. Margaret Speas, Ph.D.
EncliticsExpressing Location or Direction with Enclitics
If you want to express location or direction of an action in Navajo, we use a word that ends in an enclitic. The base word is a noun, often a place name, and the enclitic is placed at the end.
hooghan hogan/home
hoghandi At the hogan/ at home.
Kin[1n7 Flagstaff/Durango
Kin[1n7d66’ From Flagstaff/Durango
)lta’Hooghan n7maz7
Schoolhogan
)lta’g00Hooghan n7maz7g00
To school.To the hogan
Kin House/store/town
Kind66’ From the house/store/Town.
T[‘00’ outside T[‘0o’di (at) outside.
Resource: Din4 Bizaad B7n1hoo’aah: Rediscovering The Navajo Language.p. 41Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, Ed.D. Margaret Speas, Ph.D.