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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Navajo on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Navajo in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Prefixes are mostly single consonants, C-, and do not carry tone. The one exception is the high-tone vocalic prefix /ʌ́n/-. [clarification needed] Most other tone-bearing units in the Navajo verb are second stems or clitics. All Navajo verbs can be analyzed as compounds, and this greatly simplifies the description of tone.
The word Navajo is an exonym: it comes from the Tewa word Navahu, which combines the roots nava ('field') and hu ('valley') to mean 'large field'. It was borrowed into Spanish to refer to an area of present-day northwestern New Mexico , and later into English for the Navajo tribe and their language. [ 5 ]
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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Nahuatl pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Votebeat examines the current translation practices for Navajo voters in Arizona, and where they fall short when providing the full picture.
ni- I- mits- you- teː- someone- tla- something- makiː give -lti - CAUS -s - FUT ni- mits- teː- tla- makiː -lti -s I- you- someone- something- give -CAUS -FUT "I shall make somebody give something to you" [cn 6] (Classical Nahuatl) Nouns The Nahuatl noun has a relatively complex structure. The only obligatory inflections are for number (singular and plural) and possession (whether the noun ...
On the northeast side of the reservation, the Navajo word for "snow" or "coffee" is different from the other side of the reservation — similar to using “pop” versus “soda” across the U.S.