navajo
IPA: nˈɑvʌhoʊ
Root Word: Navajo
noun
- A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
- 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).
- An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language
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Examples of "navajo" in Sentences
- There, the teachers despise the Navajo culture.
- The Navajo used the plant as a ceremonial emetic.
- The age of the Navajo Sandstone is somewhat controversial.
- His area of expertise is the Navajo language and Navajo culture.
- On the use of the fourth person in Navajo, or Navajo made harder.
- There were people who were sympathetic to the plight of the Navajo.
- The tribes in the state consist of mostly Navajo and Pueblo peoples.
- Oddly enough, not woven by the navajo, but by the utes for the navajo.
- The opera tells a tale of necromancy and betrayal among a Navajo tribe.
- Sometime in the 15th century the Navajo, or the Dine, arrived in the area.
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