The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary
by Young, Robert W. and William Morgan, Sr
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0826310141
- ISBN 13
- 9780826310149
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About This Item
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1987. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 0826310141 . Signed by Young on the title page. Black cloth spine over blue boards. Modest rubbing to the boards, and dust soiling to the bottom page edges. Laid in is a typed ten page stapled essay from Young, titled An Analytical Approach to the Development of Effective Teaching Materials and Methodology in an Athapaskan Language. Robert W. Young, linguist, was born on May 18, 1912 in Chicago. He earned his BA from the University of Illinois in 1935, then enrolled in anthropology at the University of New Mexico (UNM) where he began a career working with the Navajo language. He was a Sergeant in the Marine Corps during World Was II, where he earned special merit as an Indian Interpreter,and where his fluency in Navajo was utilized in the testing and selection of Navajos trained as Code Talkers. He was employed by the BIA as a Specialist in Indian Languages, and then in Navajo Tribal Relations. He taught classes in Navajo linguistics at UNM. Young and William Morgan Sr. compiled The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, published in 1980. An Analytical Lexicon of Navajo by Young, Morgan, and Sally Midgette was published in 1992. Young compiled The Navajo Yearbook which was published annually during the 1950s. In 1989, Young wrote A Political History of the Navajo Tribe. Young's, The Navajo Verb System was published in 2000. ; 1069 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26089
- Title
- The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary
- Author
- Young, Robert W. and William Morgan, Sr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0826310141
- ISBN 13
- 9780826310149
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Place of Publication
- Albuquerque
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- 0826310141
- Bookseller catalogs
- Native American Literature;
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