This is the southernmost country of a language family that Eloise Jelinek proposed had no noun-verb distinction. The barred lambda is used to represent lateral affricates in languages from this country such as Lushootseed. A language from this country uses verb stems to classify objects by shape, and has lightning and humans at the top (15[1])of its animacy hierarchy. The Penutian and Hokan families were hypothesized by Alfred (*) Kroeber, who worked with Ishi, the last member of this country’s Yahi people. Benjamin Whorf (10[1])controversially claimed that a language from this country had no concept of linear time. A language from this country uses a unique syllabary that borrows from European scripts but does not represent the same sounds. For 10 points, name this country where Hopi and Cherokee are spoken. ■END■