navajo
Also known as Navaho, Navajo language, nv, Navah language, Diné bizaad, Naabeehó bizaad
lengua atabascana meridional hablada en el suroeste de Estados Unidos
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Navajo is a Native American language spoken primarily in the southwestern United States that belongs to the Athabaskan language family. It remains culturally significant as one of the major indigenous languages still actively used by the Navajo Nation today.
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- Navajo Code Talkers.jpg
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- native label
- Diné
- Commons category
- Navajo language
- Wikimedia language code
- nv
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 169369
- P10369
- Washington, D.C.
- P11012
- The IT Crowd
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Article · Español
El navajo es una lengua indígena americana hablada por más de 170 000 indígenas navajos en América del Norte, en los estados de Arizona, Nuevo México, Utah y Colorado. El navajo o Diné bizaad fue usado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial como base del Código Navajo: un sistema de codificación de mensajes por radio en contra de los japoneses.
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Agglutinative languagesFusional languagesIndigenous languages of ArizonaIndigenous languages of New MexicoIndigenous languages of the Southwestern United StatesLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 24Languages with ISO 639-1 codeLanguages with ISO 639-2 codeNa-Dene languagesNative American language revitalizationNavajo languagePolysynthetic languages