{"id":1824,"date":"2013-04-15T13:59:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:02:09","slug":"how-to-start-conversations-in-the-navajo-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/how-to-start-conversations-in-the-navajo-language\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start Conversations in the Navajo Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Video and Text by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/daybreakwarrior?feature=watch\">daybreakwarrior<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SwhQUJW2aY0\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When people want to learn conversational Navajo, they always want to learn how to say, &#8220;How are you doing?&#8221; There are ways to say this, namely:<\/p>\n<p>Hait&#8217;\u00e1o nanin\u00e1?<br \/>\nHaa l\u00e1 \u00e1n\u00edt&#8217;\u00e9?<\/p>\n<p>You can ask these but they&#8217;re not usually conversation starters. These are used if you know the person is not emotionally doing well or physically sick or something.<\/p>\n<p>A better way to begin a conversation is to use the starter, &#8220;\u00c1\u00e1'&#8221; This phrase literally means &#8220;open up,&#8221; but can also mean like, &#8220;tell me about it.&#8221; It can be used alone in the right scenario or used in combination with starter questions:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1\u00e1&#8217; ha&#8217;\u00ed\u00ed baa nanin\u00e1?<br \/>\nWhat are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1\u00e1&#8217; ha&#8217;\u00ed\u00ed baa n\u00eddin\u00eddz\u00e1?<br \/>\nWhat will you be doing?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1\u00e1&#8217; ha&#8217;\u00ed\u00ed baa nis\u00edn\u00edy\u00e1?<br \/>\nWhat were you doing?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1\u00e1&#8217; h\u00e1\u00e1g\u00f3\u00f3 d\u00edn\u00edya?<br \/>\nWhere are you going?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1\u00e1&#8217; h\u00e1\u00e1g\u00f3\u00f3 nis\u00edn\u00edy\u00e1?<br \/>\nWhere did you go?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1\u00e1&#8217; h\u00e1\u00e1d\u00e9?\u00e9?&#8217;?<br \/>\nWhere are you from?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1\u00e1&#8217; h\u00e1\u00e1d\u00e9?\u00e9?&#8217;\u00edsh y\u00edn\u00e1\u00e1l?<br \/>\nWhere you coming from?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1\u00e1&#8217; ha&#8217;\u00ed\u00ed baa dahane&#8217;?<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the news?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1\u00e1&#8217; ha&#8217;\u00ed\u00ed daha&#8217;n\u00ed?<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the gossip?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1\u00e1&#8217; ha&#8217;\u00ed\u00ed hodoo&#8217;niid?<br \/>\nWhat was said?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1\u00e1&#8217; ha&#8217;\u00ed\u00ed?<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s up?<\/p>\n<h2>Video and Text by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/daybreakwarrior?feature=watch\">daybreakwarrior<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video and Text by daybreakwarrior \u00a0 When people want to learn conversational Navajo, they always want to learn how to say, &#8220;How are you doing?&#8221; There are ways to say this, namely: Hait&#8217;\u00e1o nanin\u00e1? Haa l\u00e1 \u00e1n\u00edt&#8217;\u00e9? You can ask these but they&#8217;re not usually conversation starters. These are used if you know the person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[695,694,1078,696],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navajo-language","tag-conversation","tag-daybreakwarrior","tag-navajo-language","tag-whats-up","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}