Navajo
See also: navajo
English
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editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
editNavajo (plural Navajo or Navajos or Navajoes)
- A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
- Synonym: (derogatory) Tavasuh
- 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN[1]:
- As a code talker, Newman was one of a group of Navajos who learned a secret, unbreakable language that was used to send information on tactics, troop movements and orders over the radio and telephone during WWII.
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Proper noun
editNavajo
- 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.
- 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN[2]:
- One of the last remaining members of the Navajo Code Talkers, who used their difficult-to-learn language to form an indecipherable code that helped the Allies win World War II, has died.
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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
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