navajo
Collocations
4ADJ.
respectful
VERB + NAVAJO
called, dubbed, learning, lived, lives, speak
NAVAJO + NOUN
culture, ojibwe, people, reservation, talkers
PREP.
in, into, on
Definitions
noun
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 radio and telephone during WWII.
name
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.
An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language.
One of the last remaining members of the Navajo Code Talkers, who used their difficult-to-learn language to form an indecipherable code that helped the Allies win World War II, has died.
A surname.
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6As 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 radio and telephone
WiktionaryEndangered 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.
WiktionaryOne of the last remaining members of the Navajo Code Talkers, who used their difficult-to-learn language to form an indecipherable code that helped the Allies win World War II, has died.
WiktionaryI'm learning Navajo.
Tatoeba · #5780417Do you speak Navajo?
Tatoeba · #5871069This is the ancestral territory of the Navajo people.
Tatoeba · #8297589