di at kindi At the housestore d66 from ltad66 From the school g00 To toward T00g00 Totoward outside 7g77 The one who Naalnish7g77 The one who is workingthe one shich ID: 745233
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Enclitics
Examples 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.
41
Evangeline Parsons
Yazzie
,
Ed.D
. Margaret
Speas
, Ph.D.Slide2
Enclitics
Expressing 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
School
hogan
)lta’g00
Hooghan
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.
41
Evangeline Parsons
Yazzie
,
Ed.D
. Margaret
Speas
, Ph.D.