[PDF] The Navaho Language eBook

Author : Evangeline Parsons Yazzie
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2009-08-16
Category : Navajo language
ISBN : 9781893354746

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Meet Oz . . . he's got a talent for trouble but his heart's always in the right place (well, nearly always). Uprooted from his friends and former life, Oz finds himself stranded in the sleepy village of Slowleigh. When a joke backfires on the first day at his new school, Oz attracts the attention of Isobel Skinner, the school psycho - but that's just the beginning. After causing an accident that puts his mum in hospital, Oz isn't exactly popular at home either. His older sister's nohelp, but then she's got a problem of her own . . . one that's growing bigger by the day. Oz knows he's got to put things right, but life isn't that simple, especially when the only people still talking to you are a hobbit-obsessed kid and a voice in your own head! Packed with action, heart and humour, Waiting for Gonzo takes you for a white-knuckle ride on the Wheel of Destiny as it careers out of control down the Hillside of Inevitability. The question is, do you go down laughing? Or grit your teeth and jump off?

Author : Gary Witherspoon
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472089666

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A study of Navajo culture with a view to its philosophical underpinnings examines the dynamism and adaptability of the Navajo language, and the enduring relevance of ritual in the Navajo world-view.

Author : Deborah House
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816522200

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Discusses the alarming reduction in the speaking of the Navajo language on the reservation, mapping out some of the intricacies of relations between the English and Navajo languages and the teaching of them, explaining why and how Navajos are having difficulty maintaining their native language, and making suggestions as to what can be done about this.

Author : J.M. McDonough
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 940100207X

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The Navajo language is spoken by the Navajo people who live in the Navajo Nation, located in Arizona and New Mexico in the southwestern United States. The Navajo language belongs to the Southern, or Apachean, branch of the Athabaskan language family. Athabaskan languages are closely related by their shared morphological structure; these languages have a productive and extensive inflectional morphology. The Northern Athabaskan languages are primarily spoken by people indigenous to the sub-artic stretches of North America. Related Apachean languages are the Athabaskan languages of the Southwest: Chiricahua, Jicarilla, White Mountain and Mescalero Apache. While many other languages, like English, have benefited from decades of research on their sound and speech systems, instrumental analyses of indigenous languages are relatively rare. There is a great deal ofwork to do before a chapter on the acoustics of Navajo comparable to the standard acoustic description of English can be produced. The kind of detailed phonetic description required, for instance, to synthesize natural sounding speech, or to provide a background for clinical studies in a language is well beyond the scope of a single study, but it is necessary to begin this greater work with a fundamental description of the sounds and supra-segmental structure of the language. Inkeeping with this, the goal of this project is to provide a baseline description of the phonetic structure of Navajo, as it is spoken on the Navajo reservation today, to provide a foundation for further work on the language.

Author : Robert W. Young
Publisher :
Page : 1071 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781893354012

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Searchable, electronic version of The Navajo language: a grammar and colloquial dictionary. Includes paradigm charts for selected verbs.

Author : C. Leon Wall
Publisher : [Phoenix, Ariz.] : United States Department of the Interior, Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Navajo language
ISBN :

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In response to a recent surge of interest in Native American history, culture, and lore, Hippocrene brings you a concise and straightforward dictionary of the Navajo tongue. The dictionary is designed to aid Navajos learning English as well as English speakers interested in acquiring knowledge of Navajo. The largest of all the Native American tribes, the Navajo number about 125,000 and live mostly on reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Over 9,000 entries; A detailed section on Navajo pronunciation; A comprehensive, modern vocabulary; Useful, everyday expressions.

Author : Leonard M. Faltz
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780826319029

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For the first time, students and scholars interested in the Navajo language have a book that presents the verb system in a step-by-step and thorough fashion. By providing easy-to-follow descriptions with abundant examples, this book unravels the complexity of Navajo and reveals its expressiveness.

Author : Kristina M. Jacobsen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Country music
ISBN : 9781469631851

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Orthographic and Linguistic Conventions -- INTRODUCTION: The Intimate Nostalgia of Diné Country Music -- ONE: Keeping up with the Yazzies: The Authenticity of Class and Geographic Boundaries -- TWO: Generic Navajo: The Language Politics of Social Authenticity -- THREE: Radmilla's Voice: Racializing Music Genre -- FOUR: Sounding Navajo: The Politics of Social Citizenship and Tradition -- FIVE: Many Voices, One Nation -- EPILOGUE: "The Lights of Albuquerque"--Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

Author : Robert W. Young
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780826321725

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Provides a summary description of the Navajo language and a detailed treatment of the inflectional morphology of its verb system.