Navajo

See also: navajo

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Etymology

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

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Noun

Navajo (plural Navajo or Navajos or Navajoes)

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

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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).

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