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Excerpt: Navajo is a member of the Athabaskan family of languages spoken in the southwestern United States by the Navajo Nation. Its native name is Din?izaad. It’s unique in that most of the other Athabakan language family members are from the north. It’s also ranked as the most highly spoken Native American language of all, with a 178,000 speakers. Unlike numerous other tribal tongues, the use of the Navajo language has actually grown over time, not declined. The spelling for Navajo came from the Spanish language. …