The Navajo language (Diné bizaad) has a vocabulary of landscape terms
that allows speakers to communicate about their environment. This book
documents that vocabulary and provides photographic illustration of
many of the terms. The meanings of these terms seldom match the
English-language terms one-to-one. Terms include explicit reference to
earth materials such as water or rock/stone. Rather than
alphabetically, this book is organized by material and form
categories. This dictionary is a valuable resource for language
preservation in schools and elsewhere, and for linguists,
anthropologists, geographers, and earth scientists interested in
indigenous conceptualization of landscape and environment.
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ISBN
9781433160592
Publisert
2019
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok