Several language families on this continent use classi✴catory verbs, and it also contains most of the world's languages that use voiceless alveolar lateral fricatives.
A 1999 book cataloguing the "languages" of this continent was written by Marianne Mithun. Polysynthetic words consisting of a single long cluster of obstruent consonants are characteristic of this continent's Salishan language family. Several language families on this continent use classi✴catory verbs, and it also contains most of the world's languages that use voiceless alveolar lateral fricatives. The most widely used alternative to the International Phonetic Alphabet was developed to describe the languages of this continent, which were divided into six families by Edward Sapir. The alleged dif✴culty of a language in this continent's Na-Dene family led to its use by code talkers during World War II. For 10 points, what continent's native languages include Hopi and Navajo?
A 1999 book cataloguing the "languages" of this continent was written by Marianne Mithun.
North America [accept The Languages of North America]