The
Navajo, also spelled
Navaho, is both the name of a large
Native American nation surrounding
Four Corners and the name for its people. The Navajo are closely related to the
Apache. The
Hopi live on an
indian reservation within the Navajo reservation (
Navajo Nation). Navajo call themselves
Diné, a term from the
Navajo language meaning
people. The Navajo language is itself of some interest, and due to its high complexity it was used as a form of
cryptography by the US military in the second world war; see
codetalkers.
Navajo has several difficult consonants and consonant clusters. It is tonal; vowels have high or low tone, and if long can also rise or fall. Tone is indicated in writing by an acute accent; nasality is indicated by a mark under the vowel.
A few Navaho (and Hopi) live on the Colorado River Indian Tribes[?] reservation along the Colorado River in western Arizona. For information see Mohave.
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