Learn Navajo (Diné Bizaad) Through Topics You Care About

LingoBear creates short Navajo passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. Athabaskan (Na-Dené) language of the US Southwest, Latin script with high tones and the glottal stop, complex verb morphology, ~170,000 speakers.

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Every word in your Navajo reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — invaluable for breaking apart Navajo's notoriously complex verb forms.

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Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Navajo reading passage — useful when textbooks are scarce outside the Navajo Nation.

What is Navajo and where is it spoken?

Navajo (Diné Bizaad) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, spoken by around 170,000 people across the Navajo Nation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah — making it the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the contiguous United States. Famous for its use as an unbreakable code by US Marine Corps Code Talkers in World War II.

Why is Navajo grammar considered so complex?

Navajo verbs can carry dozens of position-specific prefixes encoding mode, aspect, subject, object, classifier and adverbial information. Verbs also use a 'classificatory stem' that varies with the shape, consistency or animacy of the object being handled — separate verbs for 'to handle a long thin object' (-tį́į́h), a round object (-nił), a granular substance (-jaah), and so on. LingoBear's tap-to-translate breaks these forms down.