Navajo

See also navajo

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Navaho

Etymology

From Spanish, from Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈnæv.ə.həʊ/, X-SAMPA: /"n{v.@.h@U/

Noun

Navajo (plural Navajos or Navajoes)

1. A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.

Derived terms

• Navajo white

Translations

people

• Catalan: navaho (ca) m and f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 納瓦霍族 (cmn), 纳瓦霍族 (cmn) (Nàwǎhuò-zú), 納瓦霍 (cmn), 纳瓦霍 (cmn) (Nàwǎhuò)

• Finnish: navajo (fi)
• French: Navajo (fr)
• Greek: Ναβάχο (el) (Navácho) m pl 
• Irish: Navachóch (ga) m
• Navajo: Diné

• Persian: ناواهو (fa) (navaho)
• Polish: Nawaho (pl)
• Portuguese: navajo (pt) m
• Russian: навахо (ru) (naváxo) m  (indeclinable)
• Spanish: navajo (es) m
• Swahili: Mnavaho (sw) sg, Wanavaho (sw) pl
• Taos: nábahuna
• Western Apache: Yúdahą́

Proper noun

Navajo

1. 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).

Translations

language

• Arabic: النافاجو (ar) (al-nafaju) m
• Breton: navac'hoeg (br)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 納瓦霍語 (cmn), 纳瓦霍语 (cmn) (Nàwǎhuò-yǔ)

• Dutch: Navajo (nl)
• Esperanto: Navaha lingvo (eo)
• Finnish: navajo (fi)
• French: navajo (fr)
• Galician: navajo (gl)
• German: Navajo (de)
• Greek: ναβάχο (el) (navácho) f 
• Guaraní: navaxu aru (gn)
• Hebrew: נאוואחו (he)
• Icelandic: navajóíska (is)
• Indonesian: bahasa Navajo (id)
• Inuktitut: ᓈᕙᐦᐅᑐᑦ (iu) (naavahutut)
• Irish: Navachóis (ga)
• Italian: lingua navajo (it)
• Japanese: ナバホ語 (ja) (Nabaho-go)

• Javanese: basa Navajo (jv)
• Korean: 나바호어 (ko) (Nabaho-eo)
• Limburgish: Navajo (li)
• Lithuanian: navahų kalba (lt)
• Macedonian: навахо (mk)
• Manx: Navajo (gv)
• Mapudungun: navaku dungun
• Nahuatl: navahoetlahtōlli (nah)
• Navajo: Diné bizaad
• Polish: Nawaho (pl)
• Portuguese: navajo (pt) m
• Quechua: diné simi (qu)
• Russian: навахо (ru) (naváxo) m  (indeclinable)
• Scottish Gaelic: navajo (gd)
• Spanish: navajo (es) m
• Swahili: Kinavaho (sw)
• Tamil: நாவஹோ மொழி (ta)

See also

• Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Athabaskan languages
• Southern Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Southern Athabaskan languages
• Na-Dené languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Na-Dené languages
• Wiktionary's coverage of Navajo terms

External links

• ISO 639-1 code nv, ISO 639-3 code nav
• Ethnologue entry for Navajo, nv