English navajo dictionary

Welcome to the Navajo Clans Application!This is the ultimate clan dictionary for the Navajo Tribe. "Navajo Clans" is a iPhone and iPad mobile device application that contains 80 Navajo clans. At a touch of a finger, you can easily find Navajo clan names by searching the English word counterpart. As an enrolled member of the Navajo Tribe, I am providing all Navajo clans that i have learned growing up on the Navajo reservation. As such, all Navajo clans provided in this application are authentic and commonly known by the Navajo people.Data includes:-English clan name-Navajo clan name-Group-Relationship-Sound fileSearch Features:-Search by Clan name-Search by Group name-Search by Clan Group nameAs a user friendly option, the "Navajo Clans" application provides sound files. The sound file is provided for every Navajo clan that allows the user to hear the Navajo clan being spoken.The goal of "Navajo Clans" is to provide correct, accurate and common Navajo clans to everyone interested in learning and preserving the Navajo clan language. This application is the perfect educational learning tool for anyone interested in learning the most valuable artifact to the Navajo people. What’s New Ratings and Reviews Does what it says A simple app that does what it says. Provides a list of Navajo Clan names, including the option to view by group. I love this App! I'm a traditional Navajo woman and believe in preserving the Navajo culture. This application provides to everyone the Navajo Clan system which is wonderful. You can search all clan names and

The first, incomplete Navajo-English Dictionary was compiled, in 1958, byLeon Wall, an official in the U.S. government’s Bureau of IndianAffairs. Wall, who was in charge of a literacy program on the Navajoreservation, worked on the dictionary with William Morgan, a Navajotranslator.’ąą’: “well (anticipation, as when a person approaches one as thoughto speak but says nothing)”I could begin and end here. My mother was a full-blooded Navajo woman, raised on the reservation, but she was never taught to speak hermother’s language. There was a time when most words were better leftunspoken. I am still drawn to the nasal vowels and slushy consonants,though I feel no hope of ever learning the language. It is one thing toplay dress-up, to imitate pronunciations and understanding; it isanother thing to think or dream or live in a language not your own.’aa ’áhályánii: “bodyguard”In August of 2015, I move from Boston to Tucson, to join an M.F.A.program in creative writing. I applied to schools surrounding the Navajoreservation because I wanted to be closer to my mother’s family. Myplan: to take classes on rug weaving and the Navajo language (DinéBizaad); to visit my family as often as possible. It will be opened: thedoor to the path we have lost.’ąą ’ályaa: “It was opened.”A PDF version of the Navajo-English dictionary from the University ofNorthern Colorado. I wonder which librarian there decided to digitizeit. Most government documents, after they are shipped to federaldepositories around the country, languish on out-of-the-way shelves andcollect decades of dust before being deaccessioned and destroyed. I haveworked in these libraries—I know.ąą ’ályaa, bich’į’: “It was opened to them; they were invited.”One of the reasons Navajo soldiers were recruited as code talkers duringthe Second World War was because there were no published dictionaries oftheir language at that time—and because the grammatical structure of thelanguage was so different from English, German, and Japanese. They wereinvited to: a world beyond the borders of the reservation. My motheralways told me the only way to get off the Rez is to join the militaryor marry off.’ąą ’át’é: “It is open.”One of the first typewriters that could adequately record the Navajolanguage was built for Robert Young, a linguist who also worked withWilliam Morgan and published a more comprehensive dictionary and grammarguide (“The Navaho Language”), in 1972. In the nineteen-seventies, aNavajo font was released for the IBM Selectric, an electric typewriter,which would serve as the basis for a digital font on early

Computers.’ąą ’át’éego: “since it was open”Navajo fonts are now available for download in multiple typefaces: TimesNew Roman, Verdana, and Lucida Sans.’áádahojoost’įįd: “They quit, backed out, desisted, surrendered.”Spring. 1864. The “Long Walk” begins. The U.S. Army forcibly relocatesthe Navajo from their homeland, to Bosque Redondo, in eastern NewMexico. Those who do not resist learn to walk, but death follows bothpaths.’aa ’dahoost’įįd, t’óó: “They gave up, surrendered.”There are many reasons parents do not teach their children the Navajolanguage: U.S. monolingual policies, violence experienced in boardingschools, and perceived status. Those who speak English well will have abetter chance for escape.’aa dahwiinít’į́iį’: “into court (a place where justice is judiciallyadministered)”A close cousin of mine is scheduled to testify in court in one week; sheisn’t sure if she wants to go. I pick her up anyway. Bring her back toTucson with me.’aa deet’ą́: “transfer (of property, or ownership)”My aunt tells me we have land on the reservation, just off I-40. We’veinherited it from our great-grandmother, Pauline Tom. Only Pauline Tomhad many children, and their children had many children, and after shedied, in 2008, all those children started fighting. It’s a commonproblem, and it isn’t unique to the Navajo Nation. Federalland-allotment policies have resulted in too many heirs for too fewacres.’áadi: “there, over there (a remote place)”On the drive to Tucson along I-40, my cousin points out the black-tarroofs of our family’s houses, and the cemetery—a small, square piece ofland—where our great-grandmother is buried. The cemetery is barelydistinguishable from the rest of the landscape, and, when I follow hergaze, look away from the highway, I see only the stark, white faces ofthe headstones and the silver glint of a ribbon in the wind.’áádįįł: “It is progressively dwindling away; disappearing.”In 1968, a decade after the first dictionary was published, ninety percent of the children on the reservation who entered school spoke Navajo; in2009, only thirty per cent knew the language (Spolsky, “LanguageManagement for Endangered Languages,” 117).’áadiísh: “There? Thereat?”September 22, 2015. The second time I pass our allotment on I-40, I tryto find the spot my cousin showed me. I look for the headstones; I thinkof stopping and trying to find my grandmother’s grave. My cousin told methat if you don’t do the proper blessing, the spirit will follow youhome. (She asked me, “What is the difference between a spirit and aghost?”) I don’t know the blessing, but it doesn’t matter; I can’trecognize the cemetery or my family’s