Navajo

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English[edit]

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 Navajo (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

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Etymology[edit]

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

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Particularly: "RP, GA"
  • Hyphenation: Na‧va‧jo

Noun[edit]

Navajo (plural Navajo or Navajos or Navajoes)

  1. A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
    Synonym: (derogatory) Tavasuh

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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).
  2. An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language

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language
people

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