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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.
The 1987 edition included new appendices and grammar sections. It established itself as the major reference grammar of the Navajo language. [3] Young, Morgan and Sally Midgette also produced the Analytical Lexicon of Navajo (1992), which re-organizes the lexicon by root, one of the principle elements in verbs and nouns of Athabaskan languages. [4]
The Navajo [a] or Diné, are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.. With more than 399,494 [1] enrolled tribal members as of 2021, [1] [4] the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country.
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.
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:
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
Navajo-language singers (2 P) Pages in category "Navajo language" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent ...