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📚 name • entry_id 21702

Navajo

/ˈnæ.və.həʊ/
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navajo
An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).
Endangered language communities would be thrilled with and proud of that kind of exposure for their language, like when Star Wars was dubbed into Navajo and Ojibwe.
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📚 noun • entry_id 21701

Navajo

/ˈnæ.və.həʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
navajo
A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
As a code talker, Newman was one of a group of Navajos who learned a secret, unbreakable language that was used to send information on tactics, troop movements and orders over the…
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