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The Navajo language belongs to the Na-Dene family of languages, which is in turn a part of the Athabaskan language family. The Athabaskan are a large group of distantly linked Native American people. They are located in 2 chief Northern and Southern clusters in North America. They all share a language family, despite the distance between some of the groups. The Northern group of the Athabaskan is more densely numbered, but there are at least 4 languages from this family spoken in the United States Southwest. Navajo is one of the Southern Athatbaskan languages, and language family is the largest in North America in number of languages spoken and number speakers.

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Diné bizaad. In English it is called Navajo. About 2/3s of the 300,000 Navajo today still speak it.

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