Question
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 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 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■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto B | Toronto A | 58 | -5 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Basic | Waterloo Aspidistra | 72 | 10 |
Joey Sun | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Waterloo Cloze | 78 | 10 |
Yusuf Baig | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Toronto Metropolitan A | 84 | -5 |
Kevin Le | Carleton A | McGill A | 129 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 130 | 10 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto A | Toronto B | 130 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 83.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 87.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 107.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 130.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 104.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 100% | 13% | 13% | 106.38 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 110.40 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 98.60 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 81.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 74.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 68.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 60% | 100.20 |