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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
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.
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The traditional Navajo creation story centers on the area, and Navajo place names within the region reflect its role in Navajo mythology. While Dinétah generally refers to a large geographical area, the heart of the region is regarded to be the canyons of the Largo and Carrizo washes, south of the San Juan River in New Mexico.
Name in English Name in Navajo County Population [1]; Alamo: Tʼiistoh Socorro, NM: 1,150 Aneth: Tʼáá Bííchʼį́įdii San Juan, UT: 598 Beclabito: Bitłʼááh Bitoʼ
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 ]
Navajo is one of the most vigorous North American languages, but has still faced decline, with use among first-graders decreasing from 90% in 1968 to 30% in 1998. [ 1 ] The Southern Athabaskan languages spoken in Mexico are regulated by the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI) and have the official status of national languages of ...
It is related to Navajo and Western Apache and has been described in great detail by the anthropological linguist Harry Hoijer (1904–1976), especially in Hoijer & Opler (1938) and Hoijer (1946). Hoijer & Opler's Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts , including a grammatical sketch and traditional religious and secular stories, has been ...