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Also known as Diné Bizaad, part of the the Apachean subgroup of the Athabaskan branch of the Na-Dené language family. Diné means “the people” or “children of the holy people,” and so the language is that of the people. The language is unique in its nasalization of some vowels, its use of glottal stops and releases, and its reliance on tone to signify meaning.
"Diné t’áá ákogi át éii, a Navajo reader circa 1974." (ZIM CSWR PM 2009 H4). Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico.
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A04 Dance Hall of the Dead (04-06) p. 77
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A04 Dance Hall of the Dead (04-06) p. 117
A05 Listening Woman (02-13) p. 16
A05 Listening Woman (02-13) p. 30
A05 Listening Woman (02-13) p. 86
A05 Listening Woman (02-13) p. 116
A06 People of Darkness (03-06) p. 22
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References
Gordon, Raymond G.
2005 Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Dallas: SIL International.
Kulckhohn, Clyde and Dorothea Leighton
1946 The Navaho. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Navajo People
2011 Diné Bizaad - The Navajo Language. Http://navajopeople.org/navajo-language.htm,
accessed June 10, 2014.