Date: 2012-04-29 06:05 am (UTC)
My instant thought was Navajo, which is kind of the default go-to language for linguistic WTF moments. Having looked at (skimmed) Ojibwe...yeah. You're not kidding.

Fortis and lenis pairings? Okay, that would take getting used to. Proximate and obviative third person pronouns, no sweat; likewise animate/inanimate gender. Demonstrative pronouns, WTF? Hm, there's a buttload of prefixes. Should I use the dubitative case to discuss not understanding the dubitative case? (Why is "blue" a verb?) Hm, there's a buttload of suffixes. Diminutives, contemptives, perjoratives, and vocatives - WTF? And apparently syntax is more or less optional.

Yeesh. Sign me up for Kabardian.
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