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navajo without audio is pointless
I'm sure I'm not the first to point this out, but how hard can it be to get a few recordings? The beta version is useless.
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Great audio samples here on You Tube with some of the phrases used here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6P1snUWFR4
Most of the Native American languages aren’t written ones.As you can tell, it uses the Latin alphabet like almost all the European languages.I’m only aware of Cherokee being the only Native American language with it’s own alphabet.
Cree and others - https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-written-Native-American-languages Syllabaries and symbolic alphabets - https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/5911043242640196/ Cyrillic Navajo alphabet - https://omniglot.com/conscripts/cyrillicnavajo.htm
An interesting commentary here from an elder who describes a historic tradition of NOT writing the Dine Bazaa (Navajo language). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgE-A8I4cBI