Navajo Family Sign

{{Short description|Deaf sign language of the Navajo people}}

{{Infobox language

|name= Navajo Family Sign

|states= United States

| ethnicity=Navajo

|familycolor=Sign

| |family= Language isolate

}}

{{Infobox ethnonym|person= |people= Diné|language= Diné Bizaad,
Diné Yideez,{{cite book |last1=Wall |first1=Leon |last2=Morgan |first2=William |title=Navajo–English Dictionary |date=1958 |page=63 |url=https://digscholarship.unco.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=navajo |access-date=26 March 2025}}
Hak'éí Yideez{{sfnp|Wall|Morgan|1958|p=34}}|country=Dinétah}}

Navajo Family Sign is a sign language used by a small deaf community of the Navajo People.{{cite book

| last = Supalla

| first = Samuel J.

| date = 1992

| title = The Book of Name Signs

| page = 22

}}{{cite book

|last1=Davis

|first1=Jeffrey

|last2=Supalla

|first2=Samuel

|date=1995

|chapter=A Sociolinguistic Description of Sign Language Use in a Navajo Family

|editor-link1=Ceil Lucas

|editor-last=Ceil

|editor-first=Lucas

|title=Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities

|publisher=Gallaudet University Press

|pages=77–106

|isbn=978-1-563-68036-6

}}

{{cite book|last1=Davis|first1=Jeffrey E.|title=Hand Talk: Sign Language Among American Indian Nations|date=29 July 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521870108|page=178|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XDsvau6__D4C&q=Navajo+Family+Sign&pg=PA178|accessdate=14 February 2017|language=en|archive-date=26 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526080114/https://books.google.com/books?id=XDsvau6__D4C&q=Navajo+Family+Sign&pg=PA178#v=snippet&q=Navajo%20Family%20Sign&f=false|url-status=live}}

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{{Languages of the United States}}

Category:Navajo Nation

Category:Sign languages of the United States

Category:Language isolates of North America

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