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naȟléčA

20/4/2017

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[nɑˈxletʃɑ]

Tear something open with the foot.

Lakhota – 6,000 speakers – USA (North and South Dakota)

Lakota verbs have obligatory prefixes that specify the body part or motion that is responsible for the action.

Source: Rising Voices (0:20:45), Robert Rankin. 2005. Quapaw. In Native languages of the Southeastern United States, 454-498. University of Nebraska Press.
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Credit: Steven Bird, David Rood

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Mitchell Teplitsky link
3/5/2017 11:38:45 pm

Thanks for sharing this!

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