Navajo

See also navajo

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈnæv.ə.həʊ/, 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.

Translations

people

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. 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) Irish: Navachóis (ga) Italian: lingua navajo (it)

Japanese: ナバホ語 (ja) (Nabaho-go) Javanese: basa Navajo 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 (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Navajo, nav