Navajo

• Navaho

From Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnæ.və.həʊ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnæ.və.hoʊ/, /ˈnɑ.və.hoʊ/, (contracted) /ˈnæ.voʊ/

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• Hyphenation: Na‧va‧jo

Navajo (plural Navajo or Navajos or Navajoes)

1. A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.

   Synonym: (derogatory) Tavasuh

Navajo

1. 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).
2. An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language

• Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Southern Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Na-Dené languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Navajo terms

• ISO 639-1 code nv, ISO 639-3 code nav (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Navajo, nav ⁠