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#deck:LinguaCommons::Navajo (from English)
yáʼátʼééh	Hello / It is good — the all-purpose greeting (yah-AH-tay)
ahéheeʼ	Thank you
hágoóneeʼ	Goodbye (informal)
yáʼátʼééh abíní	Good morning
yáʼátʼééh ałníʼníʼą́	Good afternoon
hózhó	Beauty / harmony / balance — the central concept of Navajo philosophy
Diné	The People — how Navajo people refer to themselves
bizaad	Language / speech (Diné bizaad = the Navajo language)
hózhóogo	In a beautiful / harmonious way (adverbial form of hózhó)
nizhóní	Beautiful / it is good-looking
shí	I / me (first person singular)
nihí	We / us (first person plural)
bilagáana	Anglo / white person — from Spanish 'Americano'
hastiin	Man / Mr. (respected form of address)
asdzáá	Woman
tó	Water — high tone on the ó is essential
tsékooh	Canyon
dziłíjiin	Black Mountain (type of place name)
nahasdzáán	Earth / ground / the land
yádiłhił	Sky / the blue above
tʼááłáʼí	One
naaki	Two
tááʼ	Three
dį́į́ʼ	Four
ashdlaʼ	Five
ayóó	Very / a lot / extremely
tʼáá	Just / simply / right (emphatic particle)
doo … da	Not … (negation — the negative wraps the predicate)
háadi	Where
haʼátʼíí	What
yishááł	I am walking (going on foot, away from speaker)
yiníshta	I am reading / I am studying
naashnish	I am working
hólǫ́	There is / it exists (existential)
doo hólǫ́ da	There is not / it does not exist
łi	ł = voiceless lateral fricative, like Welsh 'll' — a key Navajo sound
ʼ	The apostrophe marks a glottal stop — a real consonant in Navajo
á vs a	Accent mark = high tone — tó (water) vs to (a different word entirely)
ą	Ogonek = nasalized vowel — tą́ means something different from ta
tłʼ	Ejective lateral affricate — one of Navajo's most challenging sounds