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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.
This article is about the sound system of the Navajo language.The phonology of Navajo is intimately connected to its morphology.For example, the entire range of contrastive consonants is found only at the beginning of word stems.
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 ]
During his visits, Sands, a fluent Navajo speaker, served as a kind of translator. English-speaking children asked him to speak with their grandparents in Navajo, Sands said. The elders, in turn ...
In fact, most Navajo verbs are not as complex as the template might suggest: the maximum number of prefixes is around eight. The Navajo verb is composed of a verb stem and a set of prefixes. The prefixes can be divided into a conjunct prefix set and disjunct prefix set. The disjunct prefixes occur on the outer left edge of the verb.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Nahuatl on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Nahuatl in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
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.
Schild en vriend: On 18 May 1302, the people of Bruges killed the French occupiers of the city during a nocturnal surprise attack. According to a famous legend, they stormed into the houses where they knew the tenants were forced to board and lodge French troops serving as city guards, roused every male person from his bed and forced him to repeat the challenge schild en vriend (shield and ...