Colloquial Navajo Dictionary

by William Morgan and Robert W. Young

This dictionary addresses the inadequacy of literal translation when working with idioms. It offers interpretations based on the general meaning of a phrase rather than the individual words that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0781802784
• ISBN13: 9780781802789
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Colloquial Navajo: A Dictionary

I'm really enjoying this publication "Colloquial Navajo: A Dictionary." In all seriousness, it's a must for anybody wanting to learn, speak, and understand simple Navajo. I do appreciate how this book is written so as to better facilitate an individualin in absorbing some simple everyday Navajo.

good for intermediate or advanced students

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).