Adult humans are grouped with lightning at the top of an eight-tier animacy hierarchy in this language described by Robert Young and William Morgan. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this most widely spoken language in the Athabaskan family.
ANSWER: Navajo [or Diné bizaad or Naabeehó bizaad]
[10m] One of the most intricate parts of Navajo grammar is in the interaction between its seven of these categories with its many aspects and tenses. This grammatical category marks a speaker’s attitude.
ANSWER: modes [or grammatical mood; accept word forms like modality]
[10e] As a verb-heavy language, Navajo inflects verbs with prefixes functioning as this part of speech, classifying them into four “persons.” In English, this part of speech includes the second person “you.”
ANSWER: pronouns [accept word forms like pronominal; prompt on pro]
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