Navajo Language Academy

The Navajo Language Academy (NLA;

non-profit educational and advocacy organization which focuses on the Navajo language.^[1]

Overview

The Navajo Language Academy grow out of workshops by Kenneth L. Hale in the 1970^[2] and was proposed as a result of the Second Navajo Orthography Conference in 1978.^[3] It consists of Navajo linguists and other interested people. It supports scientific research on the Navajo language and on teaching Navajo people, especially language teachers, how to carry out linguistic research and to use existing reference materials.^[2] This focus is a difference from related organizations as the Navajo Nation Division of Diné Education, Diné College, and the Navajo Language Teachers Association.

The NLA organizes efforts of

Undergraduate-level courses are offered for college credit.^{[citation needed}

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The

Board of Directors of the NLA includes Navajo linguist Ellavina Perkins. The NLA maintains a comprehensive bibliography on Navajo linguistics, available on its web site, and holds the archive of the Navajo material of linguist Ken Hale.^{[citation needed}

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