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Navajo or Navaho (/ ˈ n æ v ə h oʊ, ˈ n ɑː v ə-/ NAV-ə-hoh, NAH-və-; [4] Navajo: Diné bizaad [tìnépìz̥ɑ̀ːt] or Naabeehó bizaad [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America.
The languages of the linguistic area are the following: Zuni language; Tanoan family; Keresan language; Hopi language; Navajo language; The languages belong to five different families: Zuni, Tanoan, Keresan, Uto-Aztecan (Hopi), and Athabaskan (Navajo, from the Apachean subfamily). Zuni is a language isolate. Navajo is only a marginal member of ...
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language [RHD], 2nd ed. (unabridged). New York: Random House. Siebert, Frank T. (1975). "Resurrecting Virginia Algonquian from the Dead: The Reconstituted and Historical Phonology of Powhatan". In Studies in Southeastern Indian Languages, ed. James M. Crawford, pp. 285–453. Athens: University of ...
Votebeat examines the current translation practices for Navajo voters in Arizona, and where they fall short when providing the full picture.
William Morgan (May 15, 1917 – January 6, 2001) [1] was a Navajo linguist and translator. He is best known for his work with Robert W. Young, who he collaborated with on a series of books that documented the Navajo language. He also coauthored several other books about Navajo language, culture, and history with Leon Wall and Edward Mays.
Navajo is a "verb-heavy" language – it has a great preponderance of verbs but relatively few nouns. In addition to verbs and nouns, Navajo has other elements such as pronouns, clitics of various functions, demonstratives, numerals, postpositions, adverbs, and conjunctions, among others.
The language, known as Diné (which means Navajo) even has its own “tom-AY-to / to-MAH-to” discrepancies, as well as differences in spelling, despite authoritative language books.
Returning to the BIA, Young continued to work with Morgan and other Navajo. They published The Function and Significance of Certain Navajo Particles (1948) and A Vocabulary of Colloquial Navajo (1951), which was an English to Navajo dictionary. [6] They also published Navajo Historical Selections (1954), Phoenix: Bureau of Indian Affairs.