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Colloquial Navajo: A Dictionary | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert W. Young, William Morgan
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 781784
Media: Paperback
Pages: 461
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0781802784
Dewey Decimal Number: 497
EAN: 9780781802789
ASIN: 0781802784
Publication Date: September 1994
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Product Description
The largest of the Native American tribes, 125,000 Navaho live primarily on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. Most still speak their native tongue. A useful reference, Colloquial Navaho addresses the inadequacy of literal translation when working with idioms by offering interpretations based on the general meaning of a phrase rather than the individual words that comprise the expressions. This volume is ideal for Navahos interested in learning English, as well as English speakers interested in studying the Navaho language.
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 Dictionary of IDIOMATIC expressions, nothing more June 22, 2003
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
as above, it serves its purpose if that's what you want
 good for intermediate or advanced students May 8, 2000
Sean Burke (Ketchikan, Alaska, United States)
34 out of 34 found this review helpful
This book is a good source on idioms in Navajo, and it also has lots of example sentences illustrating the idioms (as well as illustrating all sort of other things on the way). This should be quite useful to intermediate and advanced students.However, this is /not/ for beginning students -- they will find this book basically unusable. I advise beginning students to buy Goossen's intro book (/Dine Bizaad/), and to buy one or both of the other big Navajo dictionaries (/Analytical Lexicon of Navajo/ and /The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary/, both by Young and Morgan).
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