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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.
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.
Robert W. Young (May 18, 1912 – February 20, 2007), [1] professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, was an American linguist known for his work on the Navajo language.
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Below is a table of one proposal of the Navajo verb template (Young & Morgan 1987). Edward Sapir and Harry Hoijer were the first to propose an analysis of this type. A given verb will not have a prefix for every position, in fact most Navajo verbs are not as complex as the template would seem to suggest. The Navajo verb has 3 main parts:
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Morgan joined the BIA as a language specialist in 1940. With Young, he published a collection of works relating to Navajo language and history. Among these, they published four dictionaries and related works. [2] The first two were for non-natives that wanted to gain a basic understanding of the language and Navajo that wanted to learn English.
Diné bizaad bee naʼadzo: A Navajo language literacy and grammar text. Farmington, NM: Navajo Language Institute. {}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ; Reichard, Gladys A. (1947). "Reply to Hoijer's review of The story of the Navajo hail chant". International Journal of American Linguistics. 13 (3): 193– 196. doi:10.1086/463951