What the Navajo name for black?
The word for black is: łizhin (a thing)
a black area or surface is: halzhin
to become black is: yiijį́į́h (thing) --hoojį́į́h (area)
to turn it black: yiishshį́į́h (thing) -- hooshshį́į́h (area)
Did Radmilla Cody sing the Star Spangled Banner in Navajo at the end of the movie True Whispers?
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in english, Yes
Who proposed the Navajo language as a code?
Philip Johnston, a civil engineer for the city of Los Angeles. He was the son of a missionary on the Navajo reservation and had grown up there. He spoke fluent Navajo.
What is the English translation of the Navajo city of Yah-ta-hey?
Sounds like the common way an English speaker says the Navajo word for "Hello."
Yá'át'ééh
The Navajo name for the community is Tʼáá Bííchʼį́įdii.
Hiihiya'! (Hee-hi-ya; the "i" is short) Is a multipurpose expression to exclaim one's excitement and wow! would fit.
Why wasn't fish an important part of the Navajos diet?
It was taboo to eat fish because of a story, partly about ma'ii stealing a water monster's baby.
How did indians place curses on things and people?
Navajo people who put curses on things are ánti'įhnii.They are people who because of greed and anger have purposefully broken taboos ( such as killing a close blood relative, incest, or necrophilia) and performed ceremonies in wrong ways in order to gain power and money. They are considered hardly human anymore. They do things that are backwards of all Navajo values,against all that is hózhǫ́.
What is the Navajo for Angel as in a heavenly being sent from God?
Diyin dine'é = holy people ( Navajo spiritual beings)
diyin yá naalʼaʼí -- is angel (naalʼaʼí--he is sent on errands)
or: God Bidiyin Naal'a'í --angel
Technically "paturelands" are grazing lands that are managed intensively (fertilized, seeding) and often fenced.
For most of their history, the Navajo lands for sheep have been better described as "rangelands". The areas are mostly steppe and mountain landscapes. They are not seeded or fertilized. They are unfenced and the sheep are moved in different seasons, largely to higher elevations in the summer.
The United States. Navajo is a Native American language.
What kind of habitat did the Navajo live in?
They lived, and some still live, in hogans which are earth houses. It has a wood framework covered with clay forming a dome. There is always a door facing the morning sun. They have a smoke hole in the center. They have four support logs to start the building, one for each direction. They come in "male" and "female" styles. The round ( or hexagonal or octagonal) dome shaped ones that are female are the most common ones today. Most traditional ceremonies must take place in a hogan. Today some hogans are made of modern building materials. Navajo for hogan is "hooghan".
The hogan is described in the creation stories and each part has symbolic meaning. Changing Woman was raised in the first one. The earliest hogan remains have been found in the Dinetah area ( the upper San Juan river basin) and are 1100 years old.
The Navajo (The Spanish interpretation of the Tewa word for for "farmland in river bottoms" or "wide fields") people are the largest federally recognized tribe of the United States. Even in the earliest years, these hunter/gatherers lived in what is now Arizona and New Mexico and also Utah and Colorado.
How do you say bright star in navajo?
Star in Navajo is: sǫʼ
To be bright : bits'ádi ńdíín
Bright star (star it is bright): sǫʼ bits'ádi ńdíín
What is the Navajo translation for the English Words Windy Hill?
Hill is: dah yiskʼid
to be windy is: níyol
dah yiskʼid níyol
How do you say lucky in Navajo?
bízhánee -- is he/she/it is lucky.
bích'ijí ́aztą́--- to be lucky
Doo lá dó' shí da!-----"Boy oh boy I'm lucky!"
bich'ijí 'oo'ááł----To be one's lucky day.
You need to congugate these as to 1st, 2nd, 3rd (dual and plural), and 4th etc. (Yes, Navjo has a 4th person)
Why are sheep important to the Navajo?
Because they love to have sex and they uses its fur as a condom
Does a 1993 Mazda Navajo have springs?
Look behind the front tires in the fender well. Then look underneath the rear end up above the tire. The springs will be obvious if they're there.
What are the four sacred mountains of the navajos?
Tsisnaasjini' orMount Blanca, Tsoodzil or Mount Taylor, Doko'oosliid or San Fransisco Peaks, Dibé Nitsaa orMount Hesperus.
There are also two sacred center mountians: Dzil Na'oodilii or Huerfano Mesa), and Ch'oolii or Governador Knob.
What is the Navajo word for am?
Navajo verbs do not work this way for the most part. There is no word for "am" on it's own.
shił hózhǫ́-- means "I am happy". The shił means I am. bił -- would mean he is, nił - you are.
ánísht'é-- "I am" in another context
Often where we would use "am", in Navajo it conjugates into the verb as a part of it.
For example, I am alive---naashá ( literally, "I go around" or "am going around"). Compare the same verb in a different person:
"My grand father is alive" (goes around)--Shicheii t'ah naaghá.
The verb is the word at the end but now it has a "gh" not a "sh"
How do you spell i don't know in Navajo?
hwóla, doo shił báházinda
(not sure), (I don't know)
hólhéí! --Dammed if I know!
hóla --I don't know
háadishą' -- don't know where
ha'át'éegoóńshą' -- don't know why