Navajo
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See also: navajo
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]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
Derived terms
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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
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Derived terms
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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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