chjara :hakasenyan: :verified: on Nostr: navajo is such a strange english word. like, it's an exonym, which is already cringe ...
navajo is such a strange english word. like, it's an exonym, which is already cringe (tewa "navahu" = large field, endonym is navajo "dené" = people), but then the spanish spelling got directly loaned and lexicalized into english even though like, <j> is not /h/ in english
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