navajo
/ˈnæ.və.hoʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
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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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An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language.
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A surname.
Example Sentences
- "As a code talker, Newman was one of a group of Navajos who learned a secret, unbreakable language that was used to send information on tactics, troop movements and orders over the radio and telephone during WWII."
- "Endangered language communities would be thrilled with and proud of that kind of exposure for their language, like when Star Wars was dubbed into Navajo and Ojibwe."
- "One of the last remaining members of the Navajo Code Talkers, who used their difficult-to-learn language to form an indecipherable code that helped the Allies win World War II, has died."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: navahúuˀu
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnæ.və.hoʊ/
- British English: /ˈnæ.və.həʊ/
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Wiktionary’s coverage of Navajo terms