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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Navaho,Diné
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
Navajo or Navaho (native name: Diné bizaad) is an Athabaskan language (of Na-Dené stock) spoken in the southwest United States by the Navajo people (Diné). It is geographically and linguistically one of the Southern Athabaskan languages (the majority of Athabaskan languages are spoken in northwest Canada and Alaska). Navajo claims more speakers than any other Native American or First Nation language north of the U.S.-Mexico border, with more than 175,000 native speakers, and this number has actually increased with time. During World War II, a code based on Navajo was used by code talkers to send secure military messages over radio.
The Navajo language is still widely spoken by Navajos of all ages, with over half of the Navajo population speaking the Navajo language at home. Many parents still pass on the Navajo language to their children as a first language, and because of this, the Navajos are one of the very few Native American tribes that still use the native language of their tribe as a form of everyday communication. However, the language is in decline, especially in urban areas outside of reservations, as more and more younger Navajos have started to shift to the English<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=176526 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Navajo Language Speakers</h2>
<googlemap zoom="3" width=400 height=300 lat="40.423000" lon="-98.737224" type="map">
40.423000, -98.737224, United States</googlemap>
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        <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Bibliography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_references-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_references-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Book:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_book-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_book-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_book-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_book-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Detailed Description:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_detail-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_detail-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Grammar:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_morsyn-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_morsyn-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_morsyn-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_morsyn-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Numbers:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_num-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_num-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_ortho-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_ortho-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Phonology:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_phon-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_phon-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_phon-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_phon-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Table Of Contents:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_contents-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_contents-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_undec-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_undec-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Vernacular Text:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_vertxt-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_vertxt-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nav_vertxt-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nav_vertxt-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/united_states United States]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/americas Americas]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-1 Code: </b></td><td>nv</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>nav</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Na-Dene Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Nuclear Na-Dene Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Athapaskan-Eyak Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Athapaskan Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Apachean Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Navajo-Apache Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Western Apache-Navajo Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Navajo Language]]</b>
 
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