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单词 Navajo
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Definition of Navajo in English:

Navajo

(also Navaho)
nounPlural Navajos ˈnavəhəʊ
  • 1A member of a North American people of New Mexico and Arizona.

    纳瓦霍人(散居于新墨西哥州和亚利桑那州的美洲印第安人)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her father was Navajo; her mother's Caucasian.
    • Pueblo auxiliaries were often required to fight with Spanish troops against either Apaches, Navajos, Utes, or Comanches, depending upon Spanish Indian policies and alliances at any given time.
    • There are also Indians from other tribes who have moved into Tahlequah: Creeks, Kiowas, Osages, and even Navajos.
    • Hundreds of Navajo died during the 400-mile Long Walk and the ensuing four-year exile at Bosque Redondo.
    • As with other American Indian languages and cultures, those of the Navajos have undergone and continue to undergo tremendous changes.
    • As an Indian agent in New Mexico in the 1850s, Carson had to balance competing desires and needs of Anglos, Apaches, Hispanos, Navajos, Pueblos, and Utes.
    • The Navajos have a chant: ‘Remember what you have seen, because everything forgotten returns to the circling winds.’
    • When Spaniards first encountered the Apaches and Navajos in the sixteenth century, they could not tell them apart and referred to the Navajo as Apaches de Navajo.
    • The breed was brought to this country 500 years ago by Spanish settlers, and Navajos have embraced and raised the breed since then.
    • It appeared that Navajos and other American Indians made up over ninety percent of those attending.
    • Carson was then an Indian agent helping the army subdue the Navajos and Apaches.
    • But fewer and fewer Navajo can make that choice.
    • The contemporary government of the Navajos is the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona.
  • 2mass noun The Athabaskan language of the Navajo, with about 130,000 speakers.

    纳瓦霍语(属阿萨巴斯卡语系,有约13万使用者)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It included a free copy of the Sunday Times, in Navajo.
    • Although it is an unwritten language with no alphabet or symbols, Navajo is as far from a ‘primitive, not-fully-evolved’ language as one could imagine.
    • Many wore traditional Navajo outfits and a small amount spoke in Navajo amongst themselves.
    • Schools in Rock Point teach all classes in the local language - Navajo.
    • Their languages are no more similar to each other than English and Navajo.
    • Kindergarten and first-grade students received total or almost total instruction in Navajo.
    • The other quarter is not likely to speak or understand Navajo at all.
    • The difficulties language learners face as they make the transition from English to Navajo and from Navajo to English are described in this paper.
    • In politics, however, Navajo remains the language of power.
    • Through observation, one of the authors has noted that men and boys tend to speak Navajo more than women and girls.
    • By second grade students receive half of their instruction in English and half in Navajo.
    • Typically, fifty percent of the students are dominant in Navajo, using their language in their social lives.
    • Those who converse in Navajo include monolingual speakers who are mostly of the greatgrandparent generation.
    • Many students come to school proficient in neither Navajo nor English.
    • He actually wrote a highschool-level textbook of Navajo linguistics aimed at helping speakers of Navajo to discover the structure of their language.
    • She is an enrolled member and citizen of the Navajo Nation and is bilingual and biliterate in Navajo and English.
    • Navajo citizens are choosing to speak English rather than Navajo.
    • Unlike most other native American languages, Navajo is still in widespread and active use.
    • Pueblos nearest the Navajos were apt to know Navajo.
    • Learning to read and write in Navajo is a painstaking process for all students.
adjective ˈnavəhəʊ
  • Relating to the Navajo or their language.

    (与)纳瓦霍人(有关)的;(与)纳瓦霍语(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the end, it was agreed that subject matter would be taught in the Navajo language for at least half a day.
    • All of these factors are contributing to the shift from Navajo to English language use in Navajo communities.
    • Funding for Navajo language immersion schools is now threatened.
    • Hogans are only part of his dream to preserve Navajo culture through language and traditions, but they offer tangible evidence of what a Navajo-inspired and operated enterprise can do.
    • A counselor and a Navajo medicine man conduct the sessions.
    • Furthermore, a series of thirteen consonants not present in English must be processed for language learners to comprehend Navajo speech.
    • He shared his love of Navajo weaving, his collection of Navajo rugs and weaving tools.
    • Educators struggle to keep the Navajo language alive, and there is a severe shortage of singers to conduct traditional ceremonies.
    • All of the Navajo immersion students improved in their Navajo language skills.
    • I grew up around Hopi and Navajo Indians all my life.
    • The Pueblo and Navajo people use it in rituals when an infant first cries and smiles.
    • The language of Belin's poetry is a rich confluence of Navajo storytelling, urban realism, and intimate personal revelation.
    • This book is a great account of a school developed in a Navajo community to transmit cultural values and language to the next generation.
    • Roughly speaking, those over 40 are more likely to be fully fluent and proficient in the Navajo language.
    • This includes visits to ancient sites with an anthropologist, plus meetings with the Hopi and Navajo people.
    • On a daily basis, however, the Navajo language continues to be used inconsistently in schools and the workplace.
    • For centuries, Navajo Indians have survived by living off the land.
    • Their different reasons for forming these collections comprise a rainbow of motives as complex as a Navajo sand painting.
    • Experience a unique view of Navajo culture through the eyes of Navajo women.
    • From the Navajo view, a language must exist before speech can occur, as form precedes substance.

Origin

From Spanish Apaches de Navajó 'Apaches from Navajo', from Tewa navahu: 'fields adjoining an arroyo'.

Definition of Navajo in US English:

Navajo

(also Navaho)
noun
  • 1A member of a North American people of New Mexico and Arizona.

    纳瓦霍人(散居于新墨西哥州和亚利桑那州的美洲印第安人)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pueblo auxiliaries were often required to fight with Spanish troops against either Apaches, Navajos, Utes, or Comanches, depending upon Spanish Indian policies and alliances at any given time.
    • Hundreds of Navajo died during the 400-mile Long Walk and the ensuing four-year exile at Bosque Redondo.
    • The breed was brought to this country 500 years ago by Spanish settlers, and Navajos have embraced and raised the breed since then.
    • The contemporary government of the Navajos is the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona.
    • As with other American Indian languages and cultures, those of the Navajos have undergone and continue to undergo tremendous changes.
    • Carson was then an Indian agent helping the army subdue the Navajos and Apaches.
    • When Spaniards first encountered the Apaches and Navajos in the sixteenth century, they could not tell them apart and referred to the Navajo as Apaches de Navajo.
    • Her father was Navajo; her mother's Caucasian.
    • But fewer and fewer Navajo can make that choice.
    • There are also Indians from other tribes who have moved into Tahlequah: Creeks, Kiowas, Osages, and even Navajos.
    • As an Indian agent in New Mexico in the 1850s, Carson had to balance competing desires and needs of Anglos, Apaches, Hispanos, Navajos, Pueblos, and Utes.
    • It appeared that Navajos and other American Indians made up over ninety percent of those attending.
    • The Navajos have a chant: ‘Remember what you have seen, because everything forgotten returns to the circling winds.’
  • 2The Athabaskan language of the Navajo.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He actually wrote a highschool-level textbook of Navajo linguistics aimed at helping speakers of Navajo to discover the structure of their language.
    • Learning to read and write in Navajo is a painstaking process for all students.
    • Unlike most other native American languages, Navajo is still in widespread and active use.
    • Although it is an unwritten language with no alphabet or symbols, Navajo is as far from a ‘primitive, not-fully-evolved’ language as one could imagine.
    • Schools in Rock Point teach all classes in the local language - Navajo.
    • Typically, fifty percent of the students are dominant in Navajo, using their language in their social lives.
    • Navajo citizens are choosing to speak English rather than Navajo.
    • Many students come to school proficient in neither Navajo nor English.
    • In politics, however, Navajo remains the language of power.
    • The difficulties language learners face as they make the transition from English to Navajo and from Navajo to English are described in this paper.
    • By second grade students receive half of their instruction in English and half in Navajo.
    • Those who converse in Navajo include monolingual speakers who are mostly of the greatgrandparent generation.
    • Through observation, one of the authors has noted that men and boys tend to speak Navajo more than women and girls.
    • The other quarter is not likely to speak or understand Navajo at all.
    • It included a free copy of the Sunday Times, in Navajo.
    • Many wore traditional Navajo outfits and a small amount spoke in Navajo amongst themselves.
    • Their languages are no more similar to each other than English and Navajo.
    • Kindergarten and first-grade students received total or almost total instruction in Navajo.
    • She is an enrolled member and citizen of the Navajo Nation and is bilingual and biliterate in Navajo and English.
    • Pueblos nearest the Navajos were apt to know Navajo.
adjective
  • Relating to the Navajo or their language.

    (与)纳瓦霍人(有关)的;(与)纳瓦霍语(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Roughly speaking, those over 40 are more likely to be fully fluent and proficient in the Navajo language.
    • All of these factors are contributing to the shift from Navajo to English language use in Navajo communities.
    • The language of Belin's poetry is a rich confluence of Navajo storytelling, urban realism, and intimate personal revelation.
    • In the end, it was agreed that subject matter would be taught in the Navajo language for at least half a day.
    • Furthermore, a series of thirteen consonants not present in English must be processed for language learners to comprehend Navajo speech.
    • From the Navajo view, a language must exist before speech can occur, as form precedes substance.
    • He shared his love of Navajo weaving, his collection of Navajo rugs and weaving tools.
    • Experience a unique view of Navajo culture through the eyes of Navajo women.
    • On a daily basis, however, the Navajo language continues to be used inconsistently in schools and the workplace.
    • All of the Navajo immersion students improved in their Navajo language skills.
    • The Pueblo and Navajo people use it in rituals when an infant first cries and smiles.
    • Their different reasons for forming these collections comprise a rainbow of motives as complex as a Navajo sand painting.
    • This book is a great account of a school developed in a Navajo community to transmit cultural values and language to the next generation.
    • This includes visits to ancient sites with an anthropologist, plus meetings with the Hopi and Navajo people.
    • Hogans are only part of his dream to preserve Navajo culture through language and traditions, but they offer tangible evidence of what a Navajo-inspired and operated enterprise can do.
    • Educators struggle to keep the Navajo language alive, and there is a severe shortage of singers to conduct traditional ceremonies.
    • Funding for Navajo language immersion schools is now threatened.
    • A counselor and a Navajo medicine man conduct the sessions.
    • For centuries, Navajo Indians have survived by living off the land.
    • I grew up around Hopi and Navajo Indians all my life.

Origin

From Spanish Apaches de Navajó ‘Apaches from Navajo’, from Tewa navahu ‘fields adjoining an arroyo’.

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