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  2. Stereotypes. Taboos. Critics. This Navajo cultural advisor is ...

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    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.

  3. List of ethnic groups in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation. Nevertheless, it is not spoken as a first language in the entire country because other languages have been around for over a thousand years making them the major languages in terms of numbers of native speakers.

  4. Languages of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    There are over 520 native languages spoken in Nigeria. [1] [2] [3] The official language is English, [4] [5] which was the language of Colonial Nigeria.The English-based creole Nigerian Pidgin – first used by the British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century [6] – is the most common lingua franca, spoken by over 60 million people.

  5. Navajo language - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. List of Languages in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Languages of Nigeria From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.

  7. List of works dubbed into Indigenous languages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of films and television programs dubbed into indigenous languages. Indigenous language dubs are often made to promote language revitalisation and usage of the language. The number of films and television programs being dubbed into indigenous languages is growing, particularly in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.

  8. Chindi - Wikipedia

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    In Navajo religious belief, a chindi (Navajo: chʼį́įdii) is the miasma left behind after a person dies, believed to leave the body with the deceased's last breath.It is everything that was negative about the person’s life; pain, fear, anger, disappointment, dissatisfaction, resentment, and rejection as the "residue that man has been unable to bring into universal harmony". [1]

  9. How Arizona tackles a language barrier to provide Navajo ...

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    The group of Navajo speakers gathered in Flagstaff, Arizona, were deep into translating the pages stacked in front of them when they began deliberating over how to best describe fentanyl.