Please is : tʼáá shǫǫdí
Please, as in how a child would sort of whine it,"pl-ee-ese" is: t'áá shǫǫdíín
"Pl-ee-se give it to me" is : shaa ní'aahíín
Maternal uncle:
hadá'í (male speaker)
hayáázh (female speaker)
Paternal Uncle:
hazhé'é Yázhí
Mother's sister's husband and father's sister's husband: haadaaní
In Navajo, family terms like this must be in a possessive form. To say my uncle take away the ha and add "shi". To say your uncle add "ni". His/her/it's uncle "bi".
Our or your uncle add "nihi"
There are more but I will keep it simpler.
The personal pronoun is "shi" in Navajo. As in other languages there is not a different word for "I" and "me".
Because of the very complicated grammar it is often embedded in the conjugation of the verb. You can't really translate English to Navajo one word to one word. For example, some words like family relationships and body parts must always be in the possessive. You can't really say "mother". You say "my mother "- shima', "your mother"- nima', "he/she/it's mother"- bima'. It is the same with "nose" - shichį́į́h, "eye"-shinááʼ , etc. Other times the fact that you are doing something is in the verb conjugation: "diné bizaad bóhoosh'aah ńt'éé'." means: I learned Navajo language. The "sh" means it was me. "diné bizaad bóhooł'aah ńt'éé'" means you learned Navajo.
Here is " to walk around" ( present tense):
Most Navajo action words have 9 different forms (12, if you count the 'second' third person form) that reflect the point of view and the quantity of those engaged in the action. Additionally, there are different conjugated forms of the same action depending on "tense", or more specifically the state of an act - not started, started and ongoing, started and completed, repeating, and so forth.
dóó
The marks make it high tone and the two "o"s means it is a longer o sound. Not that it is a "u" sound like it would be in English. Tones are important in Navajo. With out the high tone it means the word "not". As in "doo yáʼátʼééh da" - it is not good.
amá
K'e - family
Shima
aseezį́ binaaltsoos - is one way to say newspaper in Navajo. There are about three other ways too. The main Newspaper on the Navajo Nation is the Navajo Times. You can find them online and on Facebook. There is also the Navajo-Hopi Observer.
diyin yá naalʼaʼí-- meaning a supernatural messenger. It is not a Navajo concept. The word was made up after contact with Christians.
ííshją́ or t'áákáábaa yóónééh -- "don't forget!"
Historically is has also been spelled "Navaho". That is how English speakers heard it. Navajo is the Spanish derived spelling. They got it from a Tewa word meaning "fields in the river bottoms".Navajo speakers spell the Navajo Nation :" Naabeehó Bináhásdzo". In Navajo it is: Diné bikéyah or Dinétah. Dinéis the Navajo word for Navajo people.
Dine bizaad (Navajo language) for crayon is: bee 'ak'e'elchíhí The mark above some vowels makes those high tone (not stressed) The mark alone means the consonant a glottal stop like the midddle of uh'oh.
In English is is called Navajo, In Navajo is it called Diné bizaad. There are over 300,000 Navajo, about 175,000- 200,000 speak Navajo.
There are two ways you can say "Navajo" in Navajo. Dinémeans "The People" in Navajo. The Navajo call themselves "Diné". Nabeehó is another way of saying Navajo.
The proper adjective form for Navajo is Navajo, as in Navajo Nation, Navajo people, Navajo history, Navajo art, etc. An example sentence: We visited the Navajo display at the museum to see the Navajo jewelry.
It's still Navajo, or "Navajo Nation"
Yes, it is capitalized and it is not Navajo Indians. It is Navajo people.
Navajo
Traditional Navajo names are completely different. You can't really translate English names to them at all. The Latin meaning of Deanna is divine or holy so it could be Diyin At'ééd, holy girl. That is not a really Navajo name though. Some traditional Navajo girl names are :Ádeezbaa'((she is going to lead a raid), Átsé Deezba (She is going first on a raid), Dlį́baa (Warrior Girl), Naazbaaa'(she went on a raid), or Asdzą́ą́łtsoii (yellow woman), and Ashiike Naakii ( the one with twin boys)