Navajo
See also: navajo
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnæ.və.həʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnæ.və.hoʊ/, /ˈnɑ.və.hoʊ/, (contracted) /ˈnæ.voʊ/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: Na‧va‧jo
Noun edit
Navajo (plural Navajo or Navajos or Navajoes)
- A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
- Synonym: (derogatory) Tavasuh
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Proper noun edit
Navajo
- An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).
- An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language
Synonyms edit
language
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See also edit
- Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Southern Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Na-Dené languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Navajo terms
Further reading edit
- ISO 639-1 code nv, ISO 639-3 code nav (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Navajo, nav