Question

A group that spoke this non-English language names the paradox that languages can be both similar enough to translate but different enough to be mutually unintelligible. This language is the most widely spoken that features classificatory verb stems based on whether the object is one of several types, including “Flat Flexible Object” and “Mushy Matter.” The only word in this language that has been fully absorbed into English is this language’s term for home, hooghan. Edward Sapir coined the name of a family whose most spoken language is this one by adding the (-5[1])prefix (*) “Na” to its endonym. (10[2]-5[1])Almost half of all native language speakers in the United States speak this most-spoken Athabaskan language, which is mutually (10[1])intelligible with Apachean languages. For 10 points, speakers of what Native American language were employed as “code talkers” in World War II? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Navajo language [or Diné bizaad, accept the Navajo code talkers; accept Na-Dene languages] (The first line refers to the code-talker paradox.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha92-5
Colin VeeversCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countrySimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut9710
Asha BasuI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks upTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken97-5
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange9710
Jack van NostrandRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere11610
Micah ColmanTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up13810
Yihong ChenModerator Can't Neg me While in Alphaas rational as the square root of two power bottoms13910

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%0%116.67
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025Y3100%67%33%88.33
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025Y3100%33%0%102.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%0%40%117.40
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%67%122.00
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%33%0%95.83
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%33%33%92.33