Navajo Family Sign

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Navajo Family Sign
Native to United States
Ethnicity Navajo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
PeopleDiné
Language Diné Bizaad,
Diné Yideez, [1]
Hak'éí Yideez [2]
Country Dinétah

Navajo Family Sign is a sign language used by a small deaf community of the Navajo People. [3] [4] [5]

References

  1. ↑ Wall, Leon; Morgan, William (1958). Navajo–English Dictionary. p. 63. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
  2. ↑ Wall & Morgan (1958), p. 34.
  3. ↑ Supalla, Samuel J. (1992). The Book of Name Signs. p. 22.
  4. ↑ Davis, Jeffrey; Supalla, Samuel (1995). "A Sociolinguistic Description of Sign Language Use in a Navajo Family". In Ceil, Lucas (ed.). Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities. Gallaudet University Press. pp. 77–106. ISBN   978-1-563-68036-6.
  5. ↑ Davis, Jeffrey E. (29 July 2010). Hand Talk: Sign Language Among American Indian Nations. Cambridge University Press. p. 178. ISBN   9780521870108. Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 14 February 2017.


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