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This is one of a category of words that in Navajo can only be in the possessive. e.g my mother, your mother, his mother etc....

So "my mother": shimá

your mother: nimá

his. her/it's mother: bi

someone's mother: amá

4thperson(one's mother); hamá

our mother: nihimá

and many more....

The mark over the a make the second syllable high tone (not accent or stress). Tone changes meaning in Navajo.

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