A look into 7 different languages with direct-inverse alignment systems, and what that actually means.
0:00 Intro
0:45 The Basics
4:36 Plains Cree
7:49 Kutenai
9:24 Nu-chah-nulth
11:08 Eurasia
11:42 Chukchi
12:39 Other Paleo-Siberian Languages
13:25 Navajo
14:39 Mapudungun
17:37 Sino-Tibetan Language Family
18:33 rGyalrong
19:37 Outro
Resources:
https://ourspace.uregina.ca/handle/10294/8401 - A really great textbook for the Plains Cree language, with audio and a workbook as well, all open access.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0f76g7f2 - A Kutenai reference grammar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OInam3eIjxo - A short Kutenai pronunciation guide.
https://nuuchahnulth.org/language/language.html - Words and phrases in Nu-chah-nulth.
https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/10769 - a chukchi reference grammar.
I'm not going to link to the Navajo duolingo course, it's... really not great at all.
https://app.memrise.com/course/2215337/navajo-1/ - This isn't that much better than the duolingo course, but it's more consistent and a bit easier.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ooO_pkLIgmhCrNnPXmH2w - this channel has lots of Mapudungun lessons in Spanish.
https://app.memrise.com/course/1893733/mapudungun-3/ - this is a user made memrise course. It's all vocab with no grammar, so it's better to use in addition to other learning materials.
https://www.academia.edu/969613/Rgyalrong - a brief description of rGyalrong
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-968X.12007 - some information on person agreement in zbu - another dialect of rGyalrong