Reading Material

Here is some text online that anyone can read or use to study.  The Books with Previews section are selections I found on Google that have scanned previews of the book. The whole book isn’t available online, but I would strongly encourage that you purchase the book if you are using it extensively.  Enjoy.

WEBSITES

UNM Digital Library
About 60 different Navajo Language Readers available for download.

Dine College Multimedia Library
Adobe Flash is no longer available, Download Ruffle by using the following site to get Flash-like capability again. https://www.itechtics.com/flash-player-alternatives/
Audio, text, pictures, and glossaries available throughout 7 different reading levels.

Navajo Wikiibíídiiya
I found out there is a Navajo Wikipedia page!! And there is tons of content. Well, it looks like a lot. Go check it out.

Talk in Navajo
Website with Navajo phrases

Countryboy79’s Navajo Site
Navajo translations of English text, some with audio

Digitized Adahooniligii Newspaper
University of Arizona is digitizing the Adahooniligii Newspaper that was published between 1943-1957. Select the link at the bottom of the list. Read more on Adahooniligii on Wikipedia.

eBOOKS–Available online

The Navaho Language
The elements of Navaho grammar with a dictionary in two parts containing basic vocabularies of Navaho and English.

Dine Bizad – Navajo, his language: a handbook for beginners in the study of the Navaho language(1910)
Conjugated verbs, with index.

Navajo Grammar by Gladys A.Reichard
Archive.org

Learning Navaho, by Berard Haile–Vol1 & 2
Google-digitized.

A Vocabulary of Colloquial Navaho by Robert W. Young
Google-digitized.

A Stem Vocabulary of the Navaho Language
Google-digitized

A Vocabulary of the Navaho Language
Volumes 1-2, by Franciscans, St. Micheals, Arizona

Talking Navajo Before You Know It
Navajo Phrase book

Navajo Rosaries Prayers
Text in Navajo available to read

Reading in Navajo booklet
Quick guide to read in Navajo

Navajo Linguistics Archive Project–Ken Hale Archive
Collection of materials that Professor Ken Hale bequeathed to the Navajo Language Academy, Inc.  Includes the following and more…

-Situational Navajo [part a] [part b] [part c] [part d]
-Interactional Navajo [part a] [part b] [part c]
-Meta-Navajo [download]
-Instructional Navajo-Math [download]

Navajo Linguistics by Ken Hale (MIT Unpublished manuscript)
-Part I [part a] [part b]
-Part II [part a] [part b]
-Part III [download]
-Part IV [download]

“An Introduction to the Sound System of Navajo“ by Ken Hale and Lorraine Honie (MIT Unpublished manuscript)  [part a] [part b]

Materials for “Structure of Navajo” prepared by K. Hale, E. Tsosie Perkins, R. Demers, and D. Shank; course offered at the University of Arizona, 1977. [download]

Our Community, Today and Yesterday
A bilingual social studies textbook book.

An Ethnological Dictionary of the Navaho Language (1910)
Dictionary developed by Franciscan Fathers in St. Micheals, Arizona.
Another scanned copy available here.

A key to the Navaho orthography employed by the Franciscan fathers. The numerals “two” and “three” in certain Indian languages of the Southwest (1911)
A follow-up resource to the Ethnological Dictionary

God Bizaad
Selections from the Old and New Testament

Mozes bi naltsos alsedihigi Godesziz holyehigi inda yistainilli ba Hani Mark naltsos ye yiki-iscinigi (1910)
Parts of Genesis and Mark of the Bible

Navaho myths, prayers and songs (1907)
Navajo and English translation of some myths, prayers and songs.

The Flag of My Country. Shikéyah Bidah Na’at’a’í by Cecil S. King
Short bilingual story.

eBOOKS WTH PREVIEWS

The Navajo verb: a grammar for students and scholars By Leonard M. Faltz
Highly recommended. Author starts small and builds up to the complexities of Navajo verbs.

The Navajo verb system: an overview By Robert W. Young

Navajo/English dictionary of verbs By Alyse Neundorf

A Navajo/English bilingual dictionary: áłchíní bi naaltsoostsoh By Alyse Neundorf

Athabaskan language studies: essays in honor of Robert W. Young By Eloise Jelinek

Non-digital Books for Purchase
Check the list above if it is available digitally first.

Salina Bookshelf.com Catalog of varying Navajo text, children’s books, workbooks, textbooks

San Juan District Navajo Curriculum Catalog of different media available for purchase

Dine Bizaad: Speak, Read, Write Navajo by I.W. Goossen

The Navajo Verb: A Grammar for Students and Scholars by L.M. Faltz

Dine Bizaad Binahoo’aah: Rediscovering the Navajo Language by E.P-Yazzie/M. Speas

The Navajo Verb System: An Overview (English and Spanish Edition) by R.W. Young

The Navaho language;: The elements of Navaho… by R.W. Young

Laughter: The Navajo Way by A. Wilson
Breakthrough Navajo by A. Wilson
Conversational Navajo Workbook: An Introductory Course … by G.Wilson

Speak Navajo: An Intermediate Text in Communication by A.Wilson and G. Dennison
Basic Medical Navajo: An Introductory Text in Communication by A. Wilson

Learn Along with Ashkii First Grade Level 2 – by J. Ruffenach and P. Thomas

Learn Along with Ashkii Second Grade Level 2 – by J. Ruffenach and P. Thomas

Learn Along with Ashkii Third Grade Level 1 – by J. Ruffenach and P. Thomas

Learn Along with Ashkii Third Grade Level 2 – by J. Ruffenach and P. Thomas
Dine Bizaad Binahoo’aah–Correlated Workbook: Rediscovering … by E. P-Yazzie (2009)

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Navajo Dictionaries for Purchase

A few of these could be out-of-print, but possibly could be found elsewhere but at a cost.
Check the above section for full-text books that are in the public domain or partial text books that are available for online preview.

Webster’s Navajo – English Thesaurus Dictionary by Philip M. Parker (2008)
Navajo/English Dictionary of Verbs(2006)

A Navajo/English Bilingual Dictionary: Alchini Bi Naaltsoostsoh (2005)

The English-Navajo Children’s Picture Dictionary (2000)

Navajo Country, Dine Bikeyan: A Geographic Dictionary of Navajo Lands in the 1930’s (1999)

Conversational Navajo Dictionary: English to Navajo (1999)

Colloquial Navaho (1994)

Navajo-English Dictionary (Hippocrene Dictionary) (1994)

Dine Bizaad: A Navajo-English Bilingual Dictionary by Alyse Neundorf (1993)
Navajo Dictionary on Diagnostic Terminology (1991)

The New Oxford Picture Dictionary: English-Navajo Editon (1990)

Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navajo Language (1990)