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- ↑ "Navajo Language Academy". www.swarthmore.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
- ↑ Perkins, Ellavina Tsosie (1978). "The Role of Word Order and Scope in the Interpretation of Navajo Sentences". University of Arizona.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "nla_gen". www.swarthmore.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
- ↑ "National Endowment for the Humanities: FY 2008 Grant Obligations" (PDF). National Humanities Alliance. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
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