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What language is Navajo?
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.
Does the Navajo language have all the English vowels?
No. The Navajo language does not have the English vowel U. English does not have some of the Navajo vowels. Navajo vowels can be high tone or low or rising or falling if long. This change meaning in Navajo but only is used for questions in English. They can have nasalization which the French have but not the English. And they distingush between vowels held long or short which does not change meaning in English. See related links for a list of Navajo letters and sounds.
What are some Navajo words we have adopted into the English language?
Hogan is the only word I know of that is from Navajo and now used in English. It is a traditional Navajo home. In Navajo it is: hooghanThere are quite a few place names in New Mexico and Arizona that come from Navajo.
Is a Navajo the same thing as an Inuit?
No. They are very different. As different as Chinese and English.
Are the Navajo's and the pueblos the sames thing?
No, their language and culture and lifestyles were quite different.
What are the language Navajo Indians spoke?
NAVAJO,
Why did the USA use the Navajo language and not another language?
Because the Japanese could not break the Navajo language.
What is the language of New Mexico?
English is the main language of New Mexico spoken by 65% of the population, followed by Spanish, spoken by about 28% of the population. The New Mexico dialect of Spanish is unique, and is based on 17th Century Spanish.The only other major language in New Mexico is Navajo, spoken by about 3.5% of the population.The remaining Native American languages account for less than 2% of the population:ApacheCherokeeDakotaPimaYupik
Where does the Navajo name Dine mean?
Diné means people, man, or person in Dine' bizaad ( Navajo language). The mark over the e means it is high tone. Navajo is a tonal language. Sometimes people write it in English: Dineh because that is a little more how it sounds.
What does the word Danae mean in the Navajo language?
a navajo
What do the Navajos speak?
The Navajo language, which is called Diné bizaad in Navajo. It is in the larger Athabascan language family and that is part of Na-Dene family. Similar to how Spanish and Italian are Romance languages and English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi are in the Indo-European family. About 60-70% of the 300,000 Navajo speak it. Most as speak English as well. A few only speak Navajo, mainly older people or very young in remote areas. About a third only speak English.
What are the different Navajo tribe names?
The name they call themselves in the Navajo language is Diné or T'áá Diné. It means Navajo or man or person. It is two syllable. The mark over the e is a high tone mark not a accent mark. Navajo is a tonal language. The i is said as in "bit", the e is short and said as in "bed".The word Navajo comes from the Spanish hearing and spelling of a Tewa Pueblo Indian word meaning wide fields or river bottom fields. It has sometimes been spelled Navaho as that is how it sounds to English speakers.In Navajo language (Diné bizaad) sometimes it is Naabeehó Dine'é,(Navajo tribe) which is the Navajo pronunciation of the Spanish word Navajo. The Navajo were not in different tribal grouping like some other tribes so there really is only one name. There are about 72 clans but you are not supposed to marry anyone in any of the four clans of your grandparents or clans related to those clans so over time the family ties are all mixed. Navajo country is Dinétah (old Navajo country) or Diné Bikéyah or Naabeehó Bináhásdzo.
