navajoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Navaho

語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈnæ.və.həʊ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈnæ.və.hoʊ/, /ˈnɑ.və.hoʊ/, (contracted) /ˈnæ.voʊ/
• ハイフネーション: Na‧va‧jo

名詞

Navajo (plural Navajo or Navajos or Navajoes)

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

   Synonym: (derogatory) Tavasuh

   • 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN‎:

     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.

派生語

固有名詞

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).
   • 2023 December 30, Daniel W. Hieber, “Why I hate conlangs”, in Linguistic Discovery‎, archived from the original on 24 May 2024:

     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.

2. An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language.
   • 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN‎:

     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.

3. A surname.

同意語

派生語

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Navajo is the 134712 most common surname in the United States, belonging to 125 individuals. Navajo is most common among American Indian/Alaskan Native (72.8%) and Hispanic (15.2%) individuals.

参考

• Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Southern Athabaskan languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Na-Dené languages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Navajo terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code nv, ISO 639-3 code nav (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Navajo, nav ⁠